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TIL that because of Texas’s 3-strikes law, a man was sentenced to life in prison for refusing to return a refund after an air conditioner repair, ending a criminal career that had cost society $230 dollars.

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vPZjj TIL In 2014, China's first astronaut Yang Liwei joined Buzz Aldrin at the International Planetary Congress to explore possibilities for expanding human spaceflight cooperation. The movie "Gravity" was part of a discussion on rescuing astronauts in peril between space stations
9YpKB TIL Einstein mused that he would have liked to have been a plumber, and promptly was awarded honorary membership in the plumbers’ union
kmGE TIL that contrary to popular belief, almost all surgery during the American Civil War was performed under general anesthesia and “pain bullets” are a myth. They were actually chewed by pigs.
GrjJ TIL that the replacement for ivory billiard balls were ones made from nitrocellulose, which occasionally exploded on impact with another ball. A bar owner wrote to the inventor saying that they didn’t bother him much but for the fact that every man in his saloon immediately pulled a gun at the sound
vnMx TIL Kim Jong Un was caught with a bondage pornography magazine when he was in school in Switzerland.