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TIL of Clive Wearing whose memory only lasts for about 20 seconds before resetting. He always believes that he has just woken up from the coma he experienced in 1985.

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9arX TIL men had to swim nude in all grades of public school gym class up until the early 1970s.
8m6P TIL On ‘Three’s Company’ John Ritter’s scrotum is briefly visible through his boxer shorts. John Ritter told the NY Observer “I’ve requested that Nickelodeon air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t”
6Eaew TIL stars didn’t exist until 150-200 million years after the Big Bang
nnKY TIL Tom Waits doesn’t allow companies to use his music in advertising, and sues them for using sound-alikes; then he donates the winnings to charity.
pdvQ TIL 400 TSA agents have been arrested for theft of passenger items while not one terrorist has been caught.