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TIL that college students at Brigham Young University can get expelled for consuming coffee or tea

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W9G4 TIL in 1988 Philly gangster Jackie DiNorscio, in the longest criminal trial in U.S. history, fired his lawyer, defended himself and through charm, wit and no legal experience, convinced a jury to acquit him and 19 other defendants of charges of loansharking, extortion, trafficking, arson and murder
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