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TIL casino mogul Steve Wynn gave up attending Yale Law School due to his father's gambling debt.

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lGn7 TIL of Franz Von Werra, a Nazi POW who was transfered to Canada to deter his multiple escapes and recaptures. He escaped again in less than a month, traveling through the US, Mexico, Brazil, Spain and Italy to become the only Western held POW to return to combat.
awV8A TIL of Machine Identification Code (MIC), a pattern of yellow dots color printers add to their output that has metadata about the printer, the document and the operator. Its existence was secret for more than 15 years.
jxlp TIL that in 1946, the electric chair failed to kill Willie Francis, who subsequently filed suit claiming that he had been executed even though he did not die, and should be a free man based on ‘double jeopardy’ laws in the 5th amendment
9YaxX TIL that in the history of AI research there's a time period called as AI winter, it is a period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research. A few scientists survived that. And currently we're in the AI spring, where AI is doing wonders.
pYJ5N TIL that in The Shawshank Redemption, when Morgan Freeman’s character is asked “why do they call you Red?” and he responds with “maybe it’s because I’m Irish”.