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TIL Since 1986, Playboy magazine has sponsored the College Fiction Contest. Playboy’s editors read thousands of entries and chose one undergraduate or graduate student’s story for inclusion in the October issue

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9xvQ TIL that 14yo Davontae Sanford was coerced into confessing to a quadruple homicide by police in Detroit in 2007. The actual killer later confessed, but Davontae remains in prison serving a 37 to 90 year sentence.
AMPd TIL When you get a Kidney transplant, they leave your original kidneys in and put the 3rd Kidney in your pelvis.
gMLL4 TIL about the "Super Guppy," an oddly-shaped, massive plane designed for transporting really really large cargo (rocket parts). Five were built, and they look kind of like flying beluga whales.
JBL8 TIL: There was no Roman “thumbs down” for gladiator fights and thumbs up meant death
6Rd8 TIL “From whence” is grammatically incorrect. As “Whence” is defined as “From where”. So people who use it are essentially saying “from from where”