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TIL Dungeons & Dragons is banned by Wisconsin's Waupun Prison for "promoting gang-related activity."

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omQA TIL that the Lincoln Town car is the last US luxury car to still use body-on-frame construction, as opposed to a unibody frame, which allows it to be easily lengthened, explaining the car’s full domination of the limousine market
vP5Kx TIL the first name of the composer of the title music for the sitcom "ALF" is Alf.
aMmZ TIL that in 2011, two men para-glided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42min and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent.
ZVJQ TIL of Andrew Halliburton, a Scottish child prodigy with an IQ of 145, entered IT university at 16 only to drop out six months later and become a burger flipper at McDonald’s
dD4Aj TIL in 1965 a 90 year old woman in France sold her home in an arrangement that allowed her to live in it for the rest of her life and receive a 2,500 Franc monthly payment. That women went on to be the oldest person in history and received over double the properties value.