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TIL that over 10,000 people have won the 72 ounce steak challenge

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epl1g TIL When Benjamin Franklin returned to America after having spent nine years in Paris as an ambassador, he was short 100,000 pounds in congressional money. When questioned on this by a member of Congress Franklin waved the question away and the matter was never brought up again.
JYXWj TIL Alexandra Elbakyan, a science graduate born in Kazakhstan due to the frustrations of publisher paywalls she found once returning back home from a research internship at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlantis, founded the largest pirate site for academic papers Sci-Hub
oReRo TIL that to keep young military recruits' attention, the Nazi's tiger tank manual was filled with dirty, jokes, limericks and porn. The manual also contained a big breasted blond character named Elvira, usually sketched in red to more readily jump out of the pages.
16bdP TIL that the Nut Island effect is a behaviour phenomenon where teams of talented employees become isolated from managers, thus leading to a loss of ability to complete a task or a key function.
JY1Mj TIL that there's a hybrid genre of music between Jazz and Hip Hop.