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TIL About Nick Bostic, the ex pizza delivery man who had a fight with his gf and drove around and passed by a house on fire, went inside grabbed a little girl and jumped out the 2nd story window.

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gGl9 TIL of a study measuring whether the tiredness/hunger of a judge affected the prospects of getting parole. At the beginning of a session, a prisoner had a 65% chance of being parolled, the authors found. This declined to almost zero by the end of a session, and leaped back to 65% after a break.
5VJE9 TIL the first crime involving a Glory Hole was in 1707, which involved the extortion of a man known in the documents only as Mr Guillam
4X495 TIL The "X" in "Xmas" is an ancient symbol/initial for Christ, not a political/corporate attempt to "remove Christ from Christmas".
rrBw TIL the character David didn’t leave Sesame Street to care for his grandmother. He had mental issues, had a psychotic episode, and eventually died in a mental hospital.
EeaW TIL Olympic medals used to be given for “Town Planning”