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TIL that a convict serving a 17-year sentence in a Texan prison received over 41% of the vote in West Virginia’s democratic primary

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vyKx TIL that Wilson the Volleyball from the movie Castaway was inspired when screenwriter William Broyles, Jr deliberately stranded himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Sea of Cortez in which a volleyball washed up on shore
16AwD TIL- Pistachios are spontaneously combustible.
JD8Q TIL The worst breach of U.S. military computers in history happened when someone picked up a memory stick they found in the parking lot and plugged it into their computer, which was attached to United States Central Command.
r1Ee TIL that a UCSD physicist wrote a 4-page paper to argue his way out of a traffic ticket
PYnLE TIL the United States Supreme Court decided fish are not tangible objects