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TIL mountain goats are not actually goats, but members of the Antelope family

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EgKZo TIL Robert A. Wardhaugh, a Canadian historian is known as host of the longest uninterrupted Dungeons & Dragons campaign; going on for 42 years. "Perhaps 3 weeks has been the longest we've ever gone without a session".
QLA9 TIL the head Detective of the ritzy art-theft unit of the LAPD was given a surprise interrogation by fellow detectives about a murder she got away with over 20 years ago. Her facial and bodily reactions are intense, and afterward she was arrested for first degree murder.
G0aG TIL that when Steve Jobs took acid, he said “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life”
woj91 TIL that a section of Kuomintang (Nationalist) forces near the Sino-Burmese border refused to withdraw to Taiwan in 1949. They remained in Burmese territory for eleven years, fighting against the government of Myanmar and the People's Republic of China until their final defeat in 1961.
jNRMR TIL: The appropriately dubbed ‘boss of all bosses’ of the Italian Mafia has been on the run for 26 years, and has been so successful at it that not a single picture exists of him from that time, despite being one of the worlds top 10 most wanted criminals.