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TIL Yoko Ono stalked John Lennon for over a year while he was married, sometimes standing in front of his house for hours silently.

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nZbW TIL of a homeless man in NYC who would regularly order an expensive dinner at a restaurant and refuse to pay for it in order to be sent to prison where he would receive 3 meals a day and a clean bed. He refused to commit more serious crimes to get longer sentences as he did not want to hurt anyone.
oB768 TIL: a group of audiophiles were unable to tell the difference between music transmitted over monster cables vs a coat hanger.
xVk51 TIL That skulls have been found in China that are part human, part neanderthal
dAbB TIL Adam Sandler based Happy Gilmore on his childhood friend, Kyle, who lived near Sandler. Kyle was a wanna-be hockey player who could “hit a golf ball longer than anyone in the neighborhood”. Kyle joined a local golf league, and won the championship the year he joined.
gMd74 TIL that in 2017, a United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States, stated that Alabama had the worst poverty in the entire developed world.