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TIL René Auberjonois, who played Odo in Deep Space Nine, is the great-great-great-grand nephew of Napoleon

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neWM7 TIL of Regulatory Capture, when a governmental regulatory agency ceases to promote the interest of the public, but instead does the exact opposite by advancing the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.
XW7k TIL An American NASA scientist has been in solitary confinement in Turkey for over eight months, the evidence against him being one US dollar bill.
JY8Rj TIL Berlin Germany has an airport Brandenburg(BER) that has been under construction for 14 years with constant delayed openings with no real end in sight. It has never seen a single passenger and may actually never open, making it one of the costliest public construction debacles in history.
R4r8 TIL Harvard has a two semester math course that covers four years of material, has a +75% drop/fail rate, and is considered by many to be the most difficult undergraduate class in the country.
mxlLY TIL that J. Cole graduated from St. John’s University in 2009, but did not receive his diploma until 2015 due to an overdue library book