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TIL Justice Clarence Thomas has only spoken one time in the last eight years during oral arguments in the Supreme Court. The one time he spoke was to crack a joke on Yale college.

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LQDe9 TIL that The Gaumont Film Company is the oldest exciting film company in the world
W7kBA TIL that Rhode Island School of Design’s (RISD)—one of the most prestigious architectural and design schools in the world— mascot is called scrotie and all their team names are dick puns
GYKkJ TIL Who Let The Dogs Out by the Baha Men is a cover of a song that came out a year before it in Trinidad
pp9b TIL that your neighbor’s ham radio can interfere with your wifi signal, and that it is the ham radio operator’s responsibility not to mess up your wifi, and if they do, you can report them to the FCC and they can lose their license
9YkjG TIL The production manager to 'Goonies' and 'Deliverance' retired from show business to pursue a dream to hand out bibles in exotic countries and help people in need. He sold his house to custom make a boat to hold a load of bibles. In 2011 he and his wife were shot and killed by Somali pirates.