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TIL that a hostage in the Iranian Embassy Siege was released due to his loud snoring which kept up other hostages up at night.

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oBwWY No one knows for sure what dinosaurs looked like, so paleontologists pull inspiration from modern birds and reptiles to design true-to-life dinosaurs and artists make informed guesses based on these clues.
kJ5Og TIL that Karl Dönitz, the man who succeeded Hitler and was the last leader of Nazi Germany, survived his post-war prison sentence of only ten years and only died in 1980. He denied any wrongdoing for the rest of his life.
9YDwp TIL that back in school, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen would throw Bill Gates in dumpsters so that Gates could go rummaging around in the rubbish looking for computer print-outs that would provide clues to early operating systems
L51v TIL Korobeiniki, widely known for being featured in Nintendo’s 1989 release of Tetris, is actually a traditional Russian folk song. More details in comments.
e0XBL TIL about the “Kids for cash” scandal where two judges were paid by for profit prisons to send kids to jail.