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TIL the guy that punched Snooki, joined the Army, because he couldn’t get a job.

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KO0Va TIL researchers concluded that animals can have very complex dreams that include memories or replays of events that happened while they were awake.
LkwKd TIL Clint Eastwood was mayor of tiny Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA in the 1980s; he ran because he wanted to lift a ban on public ice cream sales, flew home from movie sets for weekly council meetings, wrote a column in the town paper, and a local hotel changed their slogan to "make my stay".
OoeGL TIL of Lisa McPherson, a woman who died after undergoing an “Introspection Rundown” at the Church of Scientology’s headquarters in Florida. Her body was found to be dehydrated, underweight and covered in hundreds of insect bites, presumably from cockroaches
gevA TIL You only need to use 39 digits of Pi to accurately determine the circumference of the universe to within the width of a single hydrogen atom. (Insert “your mom” jokes accordingly)
XEYmr TIL that when Civil Rights Activist, Medgar Evers, was assassinated right outside his home in Jackson Mississippi. The hospital he was brought to "initially refused entry because of his race."