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TIL Football referee with over 2,000 games under his belt breaks longest career record

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e07lb TIL Researchers found that beards were only more attractive if they were uncommon. In a study, if researchers showed a single bearded man amongst many shaved men, the bearded person was ranked as more attractive. If shown amongst other bearded men, it lost its benefit.
OajX TIL Steven Russell walked out of a Texas jail 4 different times without holding any hostages or brandishing any weapon, is serving 119 years just for those escapes (144 years total) and is under solitary confinement 23 hours a day.
jvJR TIL there’s a lake in Russia that contains more water than all of the American Great Lakes combined
6EYl8 TIL one of Edgar Allan Poe’s rivals wrote a scathing obituary about him in order to posthumously destroy him. However, his attempt failed and sales from Poe’s works skyrocketed.
0wVxA TIL The computer coding language "Python" was named after the comedy troupe Monty Python