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TIL Ryan Stiles is a high school drop out

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x68B TIL Joseph Kittinger’s hand swelled to twice its normal size after there was a malfunction of the pressurization in his right glove during his freefall from 102,800 feet
0OwM TIL that Leland Yee, the Senator who fought to ban the sale of violent video games to minors, was arrested for attempting to traffic illegal weapons, including “shoulder-launched missiles”
vPEx4 TIL that in 1992 the US Postal service held a vote over whether official stamp of Elvis Presley should depict Elvis as a young man or later in life. After over 1.2 million ballots, young Elvis won with 75% of the vote, and would become one of the most popular commemorative stamps of all time.
YpKeG TIL Jeff Bezos was Time Magazines Man of the Year in 1999
9nkm TIL that in 1752, in England and Wales, people went to bed on the 2nd of September and woke up on the 14th of September. Skipping 11 days entirely because of the implementation of the Gregorian Calendar.