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TIL that the Pirate Bay’s largest active torrent is an archive of the late Geocities.com and is 641.32 GB.

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X0YOX TIL Tommy James and the Shondells declined to play at Woodstock in 1969 after their secretary called and said, "There's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field."
mxmmM TIL of a NBA player named Reggie Harding who robbed the same gas station 3 times. When the cashier said, "I know that's you, Reggie," he responded, "No, man, it ain't me!" Unrelated to the robberies, he was shot to death in 1972 at the age of 30.
VZoZ TIL during WW2 a Soviet Airforce lieutenant who intentionally did not open his parachute survived a fall from the plane of approximately 7,000 meters (23,000 feet)
GYDEG TIL that, in the United Kingdom, Several Prisons have restaurants that are fully run by inmates at the prison, including chefs and waiters. These restaurants are also open to the public and rank highly on Tripadvisor
8aOnZ TIL Arborglyph is the carving of shapes and symbols into the bark of living trees. Derived from arbor ‘tree’; glyphein ‘to carve’. It was also mentioned in Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’; the love-frenzied Orlando declares he will carve every tree in the Forest of Arden.