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TIL Shaq is working toward his doctorate, with a capstone titled “The Duality of Humor and Aggression in Leadership Styles”

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49VJ TIL Ted Nugent shit his pants and quit bathing to avoid the draft
XEjGR TIL Lloyds of London is known for providing unusual insurance policies. Things insured by Lloyds of London include Keith Richards' fingers, Michael Flatley's legs for $47m, Keiran Lee's penis for $1m, and the hands of the 1932 world yo-yo champion.
YpDVP TIL that on 9/11/2001, North East Air Defense Sector commanding officer Kevin Nasypany remarked "The hijack's not supposed to be for another hour" because they had scheduled a simulation involving politically motivated asylum-seekers hijacking a plane & landing it on a Cuba-like island
M7jda TIL one of the least populated counties in the U.S. is Hooker County, Nebraska. It’s named in honor of Union General Joseph Hooker. The county has just 711 people spread across 721 square miles—that’s almost exactly one person per square mile.
84WZ TIL Charlotte Brontë wrote much of her early fiction in microscopic handwriting. One manuscript contains 4,000 words over 19 pages and is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand.