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TIL an acre is measured as a chain (66') by a furlong (660')

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e6Y5 TIL Rick Moranis is trying to get back into the public spotlight.
XEJOP TIL of speed reader Kim Peek who could read a book in an hour by scanning the left page with his left eye then the right page with his right eye. He also had an exceptional memory, able to accurately recall the contents of 12,000 books.
jNrAR TIL that early in his imprisonment, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, befriended Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Ramzi Yousef, a perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The trio discussed religion and politics and formed a friendship that lasted until McVeigh's execution in 2001.
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