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TIL that there are tounge-twisters in sign language.

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v1M0x TIL about Anurag Dikshit, an Indian national who helped form an online poker company. In 2008 he pled guilty to one count of online gambling in the US and was levied a $300,000,000 fine.
Emno TIL a woman had a sudden heart attack on a plane, when the stewardess asked if there was a doctor on board, 15 stood up, they were on their way to a cardiology conference.
Y7RVx TIL: In the Zhou dynasty, the waist chop involved slicing the victim into two or more pieces and was famously used on poet Gao Qi who was sliced into 8 pieces due to his political satire. Today the term "waist chop" is used as a metaphor for the cancelation of ongoing projects, primarily TV shows.
Z0rQ TIL that in Texas some convicts are offered decades long prison sentences or forced book club meetings while on parole
wee7 TIL that the government has actually shut down 17 times over the past 37 years. It happened 3 times in 1977.