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TIL that Tim Heidecker of 'Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!' was stabbed twice in the back in 2006 while trying to protect an elderly neighbor from her son, who was high on PCP at the time.

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OGA9L TIL in 1905, a minor league baseball player named Andy Oyler hit a home run where the ball only traveled two feet. It had been raining and he hit it right in front of him into the mud and the defense couldn’t find the ball before he rounded the bases.
Debj TIL that the largest bioterrorist attack on U.S. soil (1984) was committed by the Rajneeshee cult, who contaminated ten Taco Time salad bars in Oregon so they could incapacitate voters and win local elections.
AE74 TIL there is a sport that combines chess and boxing. It’s called chessboxing
LPPd TIL The worst Star Trek Next Generation episode is widely regarded to be “Shades of Gray”. It was a previous clip show created due to a lack of funds left over from other episodes during the second season and the writer, Maurice Hurley, refers to it as a “piece of shit”.
bx8N TIL that the last heir to the former Ottoman Empire, Bayezid Osman, is a 92-year old former librarian living in New York City, who served in the U.S. Army and never had any children