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TIL Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart live in the same building and ride to work together.

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9YlWm TIL There are experiments to determine if medias are biased, however, conservative experimenters tend to get results showing that the Media has Liberal bias while Liberal experimenters tend to get results indicating that the media has conservative bias.
GYkE7 TIL doctors from UCLA found unique blood cells that can help fight infections in a man from Seattle's spleen, so they stole the cells from his body and developed it into medicine without paying him, getting his consent, or even letting him know they were doing it.
GYKK7 TIL Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was a Haitian engineer who lost his life on the Titanic.He was one of only 3 passengers of known African ancestry on the ill-fated voyage of RMS Titanic. He put his pregnant French wife and their two daughters onto a lifeboat;they survived but sadly he did not.
NpJb TIL Anthony Capozzi was wrongfully convicted of 2 sexual assaults despite no physical evidence being presented. After being told repeatedly that the evidence had been damaged or destroyed, glass slides from the rape kits were finally located sitting in a county hospital drawer for over 20 years.
5YMrR Today I learned about Lord Goddard, a former Lord Chief Justice of England. His clerk claimed that he ejaculated whilst passing a death sentence on such a regular basis, that a fresh pair of trousers had to be brought to court on those occasions.