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TIL Ted Turner was expelled from Brown University for having a female student in his dorm room.

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nrpd TIL September 16th is the shortest day of the year. 24 hours − 21.3 seconds
vPbL4 TIL that Enzo Ferrari chose not to get too close to his drivers, out of fear of emotionally hurting himself, after the death of Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari in 1955. Later in life, he relented his position and grew very close to Gilles Villeneuve, who would also die driving a Ferrari in 1982
ADVBw TIL scientists give funny names to genetically variant fruit flies; (Ken & Barbie): flies that fail to develop external genitalia, (Maggie): Flies that fail to develop past a certain stage & are named after Maggie from the Simpsons, (Cheap Date): A fly that expresses high sensitivity to alcohol.
QNGVE TIL that a teenager in Manchester, suffering from depression, created multiple fake online identities to persuade his best friend to attempt to murder him. Following his survival of the attack, he became the first person in UK history to face charges for inciting their own murder.
pmBp TIL The main characters in the Left 4 Dead series are carriers of the zombie virus, and are spreading it.