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TIL Jeopardy champion-turned-host Ken Jennings was college roommates with author Brandon Sanderson

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WrdX TIL of the Toddler’s Truce, where British television stations would stop broadcasting between 6pm - 7pm to allow parents to put their children to bed.
Dn1Y TIL that in 2006 Lance Corporal William Windsor of the British 1st Infantry Battalion was demoted for “disobeying a direct order.” He was reinstated 3 months later after animal rights groups complained. William Windsor is a goat.
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woaW TIL Hindus denounced The Pope for being offensive to atheists, and that he should “show some maturity”
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