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TIL that in 2008 the NHL banned Detroit Zamboni drivers from twirling octopuses over their heads. The ban was later relaxed to allow for some twirling.

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0Q65 TIL of Thad Roberts, a former intern at NASA, who served a 6 year sentence in a federal prison after having sex with his girlfriend on a bed full of stolen moon rocks gathered from the Apollo 11 moon landing mission
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