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

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ebQJ TIL that the American gangster John Dillinger escaped from jail with a wooden pistol. After whittling it in his cell, in March 1934 he used the fake weapon to intimidate 33 people before getting a real machine gun. “Ha, ha, ha! And I did all this with a wooden gun!” he bragged while leaving.
a8lN TIL that Chris Cornell’s “You Know My Name” (opening titles for Casino Royale) is the first theme song since Octopussy to use a different title than the film, first sung by a male American, and the first to not appear on the soundtrack.
VoDD TIL at a memorial service for Asimov Kurt Vonnegut said about the famous atheist: “Isaac is up in Heaven now.” because “That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists.” He got roaring laughter.
VMO00 TIL Philosophers do have consensus over some issues: Free will is compatible with a universe ruled by cause-and-effect, Minds are purely physical (instead of spiritual), and You should switch (hitting 1 instead of 5 people) in the trolley problem.
yxDX TIL An Iranian F-4 Phantom tried to shoot down an U.S. surveillance drone in international airspace. An American F-22 Raptor flew under the F-4 undetected, checked out their weapons, pulled up on their left wing, switched to their radio frequency and said ‘you really ought to go home'”