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TIL that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) updated his alumni information at Harvard in 2012: he called his eight life sentences “awards” and his current occupation as “prisoner”

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R7MZa TIL The Chinese, as a nation, are not keen on dairy foods and many are uncomfortable with the very idea of cheese, with the exception of the south-western province of Yunnan
b9LLN TIL Roman Catholics in Bavaria founded a secret society in 1740 called the Order of the Pug. New members had to wear dog collars and scratch at the door to get in.
YpOer TIL actress Kim Basinger bought a small town in Georgia in 1989 to try to make it a tourist destination. Five years later she sold it in bankruptcy.
8A5b TIL Michael Crichton is the only person to have had a #1 movie (Jurassic Park), a #1 book (Disclosure) AND a #1 TV show (ER) at the same time
gjL8 TIL despite the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine still gets 47% of its electricity from nuclear energy, compared to United States’ 19%.