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TIL the unabomber stated his occupation as "Prisoner" and his awards as "Eight life sentences" in the Harvard alumni 50-th anniversary year book.

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nnlG TIL a book named Agrippa was released in 1992 that can only be read once before it destroys itself. It also includes a floppy disk with a 300 word poem designed to corrupt itself after a single read. It cost $450.
weZ6 TIL that three bodies were found in a storage room on the USS West Virginia when she was re-floated after Pearl Harbor. A calendar kept by the men indicated that they had survived for over two weeks after the attack.
e0gp6 TIL about Bertrand Russel's teapot. If he were to assert, without offering proof, that a teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, he could not expect anyone to believe him solely because his assertion could not be proven wrong.
R4l8 TIL San Francisco Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Briggs has talked approximately 200 people out of suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge sine 1994
ADE5w TIL William Blount was the first federal officer removed from office for conspiracy to instigate an act of war in order to increase the value of his real estate holdings