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TIL a Pokémon-playing fish committed credit card fraud.

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Rb87 TIL Saint Nick is the patron saint of prostitutes
g5J9 TIL Stephen Hawking once dined in the company of Edward Teller,pioneer of the hydrogen bomb, and typed “He is Stupid” in his speech synthesizer without bothering to lower the volume
b9Z5p TIL Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling's final project was Fantasy Park, a 1975 radio concert. It was a 48-hour long rock concert edited together from dozens of separate live acts, including The Beatles. Presented as an actual concert, stations reportedly received calls asking how to get to the show.
lonn1 TIL in Louisiana and Oregon, a jury can convict a murder suspect with just a 10-2 vote. In Louisiana, this law came from Jim Crow. In Oregon, it's from anti-Semitism in the 30s.
4kMp6 TIL there is an affluent teenage gang called the 'Gilbert Goons' that has been terrorizing upscale Gilbert Arizona, who beat an innocent teenage boy to death unprovoked.