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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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rN950 TIL about Frank Hann, an Australian explorer who collected the cut off ears of Aboriginal people and kept their sliced off heads as souvenirs
VBJQ0 TIL What the acronym FWIW stands for (For what it’s worth). I always believed it stood for from what I “We-member”. I thought I was missing out on an internet joke or meme.
1a5eV TIL there is a town in China completely focused on mass-production of oil paintings, where for example a single artist made 400 replicas of the same painting, and Wal-Mart alone orders thousands of paintings each month
eRO6 TIL that a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad. In 1989.
oRNXL TIL during his bachelor's degree, Robert Andrews Millikan was asked to teach elementary physics course although he was studying classics. He accepts the offer, studies a physics book during a summer vacation and after 34 years he wins the Nobel Prize for Physics.