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TIL lobster is now cheaper than deli meat
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TIL: 1968, Olympic long jumper Bob Beamon’s first attempt exceed the limit of the official measuring equipment. It took over 15 minutes before a distance was posted, and only then did he realize he had broken the world record by nearly 2 feet (0.6m).
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TIL Selling oregano as marijuana can get someone into as much trouble as selling marijuana
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TIL about The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law - an Austro-Hungarian satire party whose platform included mandatory alcoholism and reintroducing the Inquisition
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TIL of the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, which was awarded 1989-2010 in the honor of the Libyan dictator
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TIL the "Perhapsatron" was an early Fusion Power device developed in Los Alamos that no one was sure would work, hence calling it "perhaps-a-tron"