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TIL a man narrowly avoided the death penalty after his alibi was confirmed at a dodgers game on the show Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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ZXWv TIL Weird Al Yankovic has asked permission from Prince to parody his songs on numerous occasions, and has always been refused. When the two were assigned to sit in the same row at an award’s show, he got a telegram from Prince’s lawyers demanding he not make eye contact
d86W9 TIL that in 2004, researchers were exploring using sugar, specifically glucose, as fuel for an ecologically friendly automobile.
O8Z1 TIL that US forces in Afghanistan dropped small, yellow cluster bombs which (if they didn’t detonate on impact) were easily mistaken for the small, yellow food rations they also dropped.
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lwJG TIL that in 1966 a 26yr old man successfully fasted for 382 days and lost 276lbs