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TIL there was U.S. federal judge named Wesley Brown who continued to serve at the age of 104

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9YpAD TIL of Budd Dwyer, PA State Treasurer who committed televised suicide the day before he was to be removed from office for a bribery conviction, so his wife and disabled child could receive full death benefits after being bankrupted by legal fees. He was later proven innocent.
nWkyo TIL that after constantly eat raw beef over a couple of years, a man in China eventually had a 20 foot long tapeworm living in his small intestine, and it turned out that the tapeworm had been inside his small intestines for at least 2 years.
ByQK TIL that diamonds aren’t all that rare and were manufactured into a romantic symbol by a company called Debeers in the early 1900’s. They own most of the diamond mines in the world and create their own supply and demand.
4XBrX TIL there is a volcano in Colorado which is likely to become active again---Dotsero, beside Interstate 70, last erupted only 4,200 years ago.
5YRdD TIL that Billy Beane, the GM of the Oakland A's made famous through his use of "Moneyball" statistical approach to baseball, was in 2019 elected into the Baseball Reliquary Shrine of the Eternals where statistical accomplishment is not a criteria for election