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TIL Charles Kushner plead guilty to witness tampering for hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, arranged to record an encounter between the two, and had the tape sent to his sister

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kOmRW TIL of Donald Caskie, "the Tartan Pimpernel", a Church of Scotland minister working in Paris who helped 500 Allied servicemen escape occupied France during World War II
EgJEx TIL that Technicolor is named after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of the founders of Technicolor, Inc., Herbert Kalmus and Daniel Frost Comstock, received their undergraduate degrees in 1904.
84RV TIL John Stewart read every book from the authors he had on The Daily Show.
kZAW TIL Tree roots from different trees can physically fuse together; “like connecting [the] blood vessels of two different people. One tree gives the other tree a permanent transfusion.”
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