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TIL that Jared Fogle, in a last ditch effort to get his conviction overturned, claimed to be a "sovereign citizen" and filed a motion rejecting the court's authority to convict him. It was rejected.

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VMEkQ TIL A retired electrical engineer named Bruce Campbell had an old Boeing 727 delivered to the woods near Portland, OR and converted it to his home where he lives full time
4X0V6 TIL on July 23, 1982, a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashed at Santa Clarita, California, during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie. The crash killed three people on the ground: actor Vic Morrow and two child actors while injuring the six helicopter passengers.
b9MlQ TIL that clonally transmissible cancers exist. These cancers can be transmitted between individuals without the involvement of an infectious agent (unlike e.g. HPV-associated cervical cancer). They are very rare in humans but more common in dogs, Tasmanian devils and clams.
PkLJ TIL Netflix uses Torrent data to decide what to buy rights to.
VMj8 TIL female koalas have two vaginas, and a male koala’s penis is split into two.