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TIL that Amanda Knox, while imprisoned, was falsely told she had HIV. This led her to list her sexual partners, which then leaked to the media. This incident is seen as a strategy by authorities to probe her personal life for a possible accomplice in the Meredith Kercher murder case.

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QNy9d TIL that Colorado has the fewest required school days in the United States (160), and that 8 states don't have any minimum school day requirement: Arkansas, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
e0Ovg TIL TBS sped up Seinfeld by 7.5% so they could add 2 more minutes of commercials.
R7646 TIL about Germany Schaefer, who played major-league baseball from 1901 to 1918. He liked to steal first base after reaching second to confuse the pitcher. After his retirement, a rule was passed that any player who ran the bases in the wrong direction would be called out.
VBYWQ TIL In 2010, the Russian Navy ordered the repair of a nuclear battlecruiser at a cost of $11 million dollars. Prosecutors later revealed that the actual cost of this work should have been $8 million and the other $3 million was stolen. As was discovered later, no repair work was carried at all.
XPw8 TIL that Brazil participated in WW2, the only independent South American country to do so. The 25,000-troop Brazilian Expeditionary Force worked alongside the Allies, and managed to take 20,573 Axis prisoners, consisting of two generals, 892 officers and 19,679 other ranks.