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TIL spaghetti almost invariably breaks into more than two pieces. It required a team of scientists, including a MIT mathematician, to figure out how to reliably snap spaghetti into just two pieces

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D1DWJ TIL that after completing his 20 yr sentence in 2000, John Lennon's killer has been denied parole every 2 years since. Next parole hearing is Aug 2020.
vP4KB Til Irving Berlin's first wife contracted typhoid fever on their honeymoon in Havana. She died 5 months later. He eventually remarried and was married for 62 years until his second wife's death.
16OxW TIL that the two candidates in the 1886 Tennessee Gubernatorial Election were brothers. The two campaigned alongside each other, spending the first half of each campaign stop engaging in political banter and telling stories and the second half playing fiddle tunes while the crowd danced.
KOl9 TIL that during his tenure as Bogota mayor, Antanas Mockus hired 20 mimes to follow and mock those ignoring pedestrian and traffic laws. The program was so popular, he hired 400 more.
OAG6 TIL that the 1905 football season was so dangerous that 18 players died, prompting Teddy Roosevelt to form a committee that ended up legalizing the forward pass.