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TIL about the longest standoff in American history. John Joe Gray and his family patrolled their property with guns for 15 years after he didn’t show up to court for assaulting a police officer.

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pY7A4 TIL - MacGyver series ran from 1985 until 1992, as a result, for 37+ years we've been using the word "MacGyvered" as an adjective meaning "adapted or improvised in an ingenious or expedient way.". In March 2019, the term was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
16p7 TIL there is a subgenre of rap called ‘Chap Hop’ that is essentially gentlemenly rapping
9YA9p TIL of Hannah Senesh, a Jewish paratrooper and poet during the Holocaust. She was captured, tortured, and eventually executed, but never gave up her comrades. "I could have been twenty-three next July; I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost."
yQAne TIL Marc Benioff, an American Internet entrepreneur with a net worth of $6.9 billion, created the 1-1-1 model of integrated corporate philanthropy, by which companies contribute 1 percent of equity, 1 percent of employee hours, and 1 percent of product back to the community.
Ql4M TIL Dinosaurs probably tasted like chicken