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TIL: Over 248 Police Officers and Firefighters in New Jersey were linked to a steroids ring in 2007.

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YLZB TIL John Travolta, Chevy Chase, and Bill Murray all turned down the role of Forrest Gump, which was then played by Tom Hanks.
9YKop TIL Folding@Home is a distributed computing project for biomedical research of protein folding. Started in 2000, it now has over 100,000 users and is the fastest supercomputer in the world with over 470 petaFLOPS of computational power. The research has produced over 223 peer reviewed articles.
D1dDj TIL that when chimpanzees were given opportunity to watch TV, their favorite was the Playboy Channel
BgLNy TIL Göbekli Tepe: The oldest discovered temple in the world. Located in the Germus mountains of southeastern Anatolia, this property features monumental round-oval and rectangular megalithic structures built by hunter-gatherers during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period between 9,600 and 8,200 BC.
ggNW TIL Jimmy Stewart flew 20 combat missions in WWII and retired as a Brigadier General.