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TIL a UK judge ordered a criminal to be released as at a height of 7'2" he was too big for prisons.

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86g4 TIL in 1975, Leonard Nimoy published his autobiography I Am Not Spock. In 1995, he published a second volume: I AM Spock.
XpNE TIL Mary Anderson, inventor of the modern windscreen wiper was told “we do not consider it to be of such commercial value as would warrant our undertaking its sale”, when she tried to sell her patent. Many company’s went on to implement her device after her patent was expired.
5EmQ TIL that a group of “illegal restorers” broke into the Paris Panthéon, set up a secret workshop, and repaired the monument’s broken clock.
ga7L TIL the Dalai Lama said that if science proves an aspect of Buddhism wrong, Buddhism will change
9YjvQ TIL Akira Haraguchi, who in 2006 recited 100,000 digits of pi from memory at a public event near Tokyo. It took him 16hrs 30mins.