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TIL in 2015 three inmates from a maximum security prison beat Harvard’s debate team in a competitive debate.

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WkGEX TIL that in 1993, Michael Jordan's father was murdered while taking a nap in his car.
pnN TIL that Edgar Allen Poe’s only full length novel featured a scene in which a cabin boy named Richard Parker is cannibalized by his shipwrecked crew mates. 46 years later, a real ship wrecked crew actually did cannibalize their cabin boy…who was also named Richard Parker.
MeQNV TIL Silicone oil leaches out of remote control buttons and gradually makes the controller less responsive
rNld1 TIL Thomas Wedders (also known as Thomas Wadhouse) was an 18th-century circus performer who is said to have had the world's longest nose. His nose was allegedly 7.8 inches (20 cm) long. He was born in Yorkshire, England, around 1730 and died around 1780.
xPa5 TIL In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.