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TIL there was no winner for the “Who Shot Mr. Burns” contest on The Simpsons. The contest rules said that a winner would be selected from the pool of people who guessed correctly, but there were no correct guesses.

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Qmkp TIL famed sci-fi author Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to renowned A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”
rRpyd TIL that Japan withdrew funding from UNESCO after Nanjing Massacre documents were inscribed in the UN body’s Memory of the World list.
BgvDd TIL Indian Premier League
4wJ6 TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte was once moved to tears over the grief of a dog who he found sitting with its owner’s body
wLGpW TIL the supermarket chain Publix has never laid off an employee