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TIL that on the first night of Jerry Sandusky's prison sentence, inmates taunted him all night singing the Pink Floyd lyrics, "Hey, teacher! Leave those kids alone!"

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9wP4m TIL Cobalt is named after kobolds (tricksy, sometimes malevolent spirits): the ore was called goblin/kobold ore due to giving off poisonous arsenic fumes when smelted.
e0656 TIL In 1968 Japan a fake motorbike cop stopped a car carrying 300m Yen in cash (26m USD), told the driver to run because the car was rigged to blow and then simply drove the car away. The culprit and the cash have never been found
nPmo TIL that each year, there are more than 35,000 low-income high school seniors that score in the 90th percentile on the ACT or SAT but never make it to college.
Wkk0B TIL in the 19th century Americans loved to eat eels so much that over fishing lead to a decline in supply and the public lost its taste for eel.
vW6r TIL of Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr who during the Japanese Interment of WWII was the only Gov. to open up his state to Japanese-American citizens as a safe zone to avoid interment. The move cost him his political career.