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TIL that Matt Leblanc, before he was cast in Friends, was told by a photographer to go to a dentist and file a tooth as it was longer. Matt couldn't afford $80 for the dentist as he only had $11 left to his name, so he bought 3 packs of emery boards (Nail files) and filed the tooth himself.

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OpJL TIL the record for longest consecutive prison sentence ending with the prisoners release is 68 years. Paul Geidel was convicted of 2nd degree murder at the age of 17 and was released at the age of 86.
mxOLo TIL MIT, often cited as one of the world’s most prestigious universities, puts almost all of its course materials online for anyone to access for free.
4kedJ TIL the writer of 'Crime and Punishment', Dostoevsky, was sentenced to death by firing squad for political reasons. Moments before he was to be shot, a cart delivered a letter from the Tsar commuting the sentence to four years of exile in Siberia
e0Gng TIL that the biggest ship in the ancient world the Tessarakonteres had 4,000 oarsmen. Most believe that the boat was so big that it wasn’t really functional.
4aZ6 TIL that Scientologists tried to hijack the Hugo Awards in 1987, filling the World Science Fiction Convention with cultists in order to promote L. Ron Hubbard’s science fiction novel