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TIL Lack of play for kids results in mental health problems.

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6nbw TIL a high-school student sued his school district after they suspended him for three days for giving an innuendo-laden speech at a school assembly. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
78RMx TIL that prior to World War 2 Vidkun Quisling was known for helping Norwegian explorer Fritjof Nansen in humanitarian work for the Russian famine as well as Armenian genocide survivors
gMwLX TIL tonsil stones can cause very bad breath. Tonsil stones are the small white hard objects that we spit out sometimes and which smell like death.
4knDw TIL that Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin of France was the first woman parachutist. In October of 1799 she ascended 900 meters in a balloon, released the gondola, and rode it back down via parachute.
d8VAQ TIL that Pixar had to ask for permission to use the Omnidroid name as Lucasfilm has a trademark on the word "droid".