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TIL in 2001, before being exposed as a pedophile, Jerry Sandusky published an autobiography titled “Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story”

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LQrLP TIL about the Women's 1500m at the 2012 Summer Olympics, called "one of the dirtiest race in history", where six of the first nine finishers (1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 9th) have been found to have been doping and the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th and 9th finishers were disqualified as of now.
4kWJ TIL the world’s largest insect is so big, it can fit a carrot in its mouth.
0wBoL TIL the armonica which Benjamin Franklin invented in 1761 (and some believed caused madness) owes its disorienting sound due to the way we perceive and locate sound. Above 4khz we use loudness for location. Below 1khz we use phase differences. The armonica (1-4khz) is in a range the brain is unsure.
wLAG1 TIL that no prime minister has ever completed a full term in Pakistan.
mxP0v TIL I learned you can binge the soap Guiding Light every hour non-stop for 591 days. If you started this show on March 10, 2020, you would not be finished until October 23, 2021