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TIL a woman spent two years in her boyfriend’s bathroom

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pY9Ze TIL up until the 90s Oscar voters for best documentary used to show up to a screening theater and given a flashlight. 15 minutes after a documentary is played, voters can turn on their flashlight to stop the documentary. If 3/4 of the voters have their lights on, they can move on to the next doc.
Wp7Y TIL you can use food stamps (SNAP benefits) to purchase seeds/plants that will produce food for the household.
x6JXk TIL Yiannis Kouros won the 1988 Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon (537 mi, 864 km) even though he started 12 hours behind the rest of the field after the organizers of the race challenged him to do so. In total, he won 5 of the 9 times the event was held.
M77O7 TIL: The Lorem Ipsum Dolor placeholder text is from an ancient Roman manuscript by Cicero, and has been used since the 1500s for this purpose
yED8 TIL that radiation-blocking proteins taken from “water bear” DNA have been incorporated into human cells which boosted the protection of human DNA against damage from x-rays by 40%.