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TIL That sometimes Pugs have eyes that pop out of the socket.

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PYryn TIL Ted Koppel stopped reporting on the 1996 Republican Convention after stating there was no news left to cover and calling it "more of an infomercial than a news event".
NXyAE TIL that during his time undercover as Donnie Brasco, Joseph Pistone was asked to do four hits. At least once, the FBI had to stage a murder when it was too risky for him to try and get out of doing it.
wmVJ TIL Blackbeard was remarkably judicious in his use of force. In dozens of eyewitness accounts, there is not a single instance in which he killed anyone prior to his final, fatal battle with the Royal Navy. “I haven’t seen a single piece of evidence that Blackbeard ever used violence against anyone.”
LW6V TIL: A man who was high on meth fought off 15 police officers while masturbating. Even a taser had no effect.
VBE4m TIL that mathematician Mike Keith wrote a 10,000-word book (consisting of short stories, poetry, puzzles) in which the number of letters in successive words encodes the first 10,000 digits of pi.