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TIL that in Texas some convicts are offered decades long prison sentences or forced book club meetings while on parole

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J1Ng8 TIL Kevin Shields of my bloody valentine had 12 different Jazzmaster guitars all in different tunings each for different songs, because tuning one guitar was hard to do live
9Ybvp TIL Martin Van Buren was the first president who was born after the United States declared independence, and the first to have English as a second language.
wLXQ1 TIL a critical mass of uranium assembled itself in what is now Gabon, forming the first and only natural nuclear reactor in history. It fissioned for hundreds of thousands of years before fizzling out.
b9Vnj TIL that “It’s my Life” from Gwen Stefani was a remake of a song by British New Wave band Talk Talk
j7Pv TIL that when Randolph Churchill (who was spoiled and rude) had a non malignant growth removed from his lung. A “friend” of the family was qouted saying “It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the one part of Randolph which was not malignant and to remove it.”