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TIL that a dating game contestant turned down a date with her chosen winner because he was “acting creepy” after the show… the winner turned out to be a serial rapist and murderer.

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6EmNl TIL that "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" considered other names before settling on the one they did, among them "Arthur Megapode’s Cheap Show", "Owl Stretching Time", "Vaseline Parade" and "A Clump of Plinths"
WvrA TIL when TGI Friday’s announced their $10 Endless Appetizers deal, a woman sat in a Friday’s for 14 hours eating plate after plate of mozzarella sticks to see if they were truly “endless”. They were.
PYwlO TIL about Xu Xiaodong, a Chinese MMA fighter who exposed multiple fraudulent martial arts "masters" by beating them in seconds. This angered Chinese authorities, who went on a campaign to break him, and he lost almost everything as a result.
6ZLX TIL: The world’s oldest known smiley was on a 1635 Slovakian document, indicating the writer’s happiness with the state of the Chamberlain of Trenčín’s financial records.
VdgG TIL Nikola Tesla still has inventions classified by the US government.