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TIL Liam Neeson was fired from his teaching job after punching a 15-year-old student who pulled a knife on him.

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WMeY TIL That Verizon refused to help search for a 62 disabled patient because he had an unpaid bill on his phone
o9L TIL that the Brazilian passport is the most sought after passport in the black market due to the ethnic and culturally mixed make-up of Brazilian society.
k8n1 TIL that pirate Benjamin Hornigold once attacked a ship just to take their hats.
xVAn7 TIL That there were elephant-sized sloths that lived on the ground as recently as 1500 BC in the islands of the Caribbean, meaning that they lived alongside humans
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