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TIL the original doughnuts from Dunkin’ Donuts had a handle

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MPR0 TIL Judge Dennis Wiley, from the frontpage “sex offender” case, once gave a reverend 3 - 10 years for quoting a Biblical threat since his reverend status gave him a “direct line to God” and made the threat “credible”
kO1Yd TIL that 90% of people with the last name “Washington” are black according to the 2000 US census. Of the remaining ten percent, 50% are white, and 30% are mixed race.
BPRe TIL Bruce Campbell had to listen to Macho Man Randy Savage having loud sex between breaks on the set of Spiderman
m0RY TIL that Steve Young continues to earn millions of dollars from a contract to play QB for a team and league that hasn’t existed in nearly 30 years.
gM1K4 TIL that the last American WWI veteran lied about his age to serve in the military at 16. He told one recruiter he was 18 but was told to go home "before my mother noticed I was gone." Instead of being discouraged, he doubled down and told the next recruiter he was 21 and was signed up on the spot.