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TIL BuzzFeed writer Benny Johnson was found guilty of plagiarizing over 40 different times before he was fired. He was subsequently hired by National Review as a social media editor.

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xQQo TIL a Texas man walked in on a farmhand molesting his 5-year-old. He flew into a rage and beat the man to death. Realizing what he had done, the dad immediately called the cops and even tried to take the farmhand to the hospital himself. Ultimately, the local sheriff decided not to press charges.
JYL5k TIL The 18.4TB compressed database of all 7-piece or fewer chess endgames uses on average 0.35 bits per position, storing almost 23 chess positions per byte used.
nevar TIL In 1957, actor Cary Grant was diagnosed with "prolonged emotional detachment" and began medical LSD therapy. He had more than 100 acid trips over a 2 year period and believed it helped him cope with the pain from his childhood.
N7pXN TIL: A study by Microsoft and Canada revealed in 2015 that the average attention span is now 8 seconds, down from 12 seconds in 2000 due to the advent of mobile phones. The attention span of a goldfish is 9 seconds.
eDRk TIL The first products designed specifically to wipe after using the bathroom were aloe-infused sheets of manila hemp but people rejected them in favor of the Sears Roebuck Catalog