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TIL During a scrapped Conan O'Brien skit, Conan was supposed to cut off someone talking about star wars vs star trek, but didn’t, and they spoke for 6 minutes straight in quite an impressive explanation the Conan staff wasn’t expecting.

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b6QWa TIL about Alphonse Le Gastelois, a man from Jersey who lived alone on a remote reef for 14 years after being wrongly accused of child assault. He was ostracized and feared for his life. The real attacker, Edward Paisnel, was caught in 1971 after 11 years of terror.
Y7Q9W TIL about Mongolian Prime Minister Peljidiin Genden who in 1935 slapped Joseph Stalin during a political argument
WkeD9 TIL height in poor countries correlates with protein quantity and height in developed countries correlates with protein quality.
NxLN TIL that Al Gore’s wife, Tipper Gore, wrote a book and founded an organization that advocated for censoring rock music and cited Dungeons and Dragons as a path leading children to kill.
LkAMr TIL, entrepreneur Suzanne Ciani was the first female to have a voice on a pinball game, specifically Xenon, through a vocoder, and was even inducted into The Pinball Expo Hall of Fame in 2013 for that work of hers.