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TIL a lunch lady got fired for feeding a hungry kid free of charge

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JY7y1 TIL Doggerland is the area of land connecting Great Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by rising sea-levels (6500-6200 BC), turning Great Britain into an island.
KYZpJ TIL that Margaret Dickson was hanged in 1724, but was later found to be still alive. She was then released because, under Scots Law, her punishment had been carried out. The words 'until dead' were only added to the sentence of hanging later.
e0BPD TIL the Jal Mahal (literally "water palace") is a palace in the middle of a lake in India, and 4 of its stories are under the lake.
LlYZ TIL: To test the concrete walls of nuclear reactors, the US Government flew an F4: Phantom into it at 500mph (800km/h)
Oy46 TIL Dr. Seuss once wrote a satire against the antisemitism that happened in Germany. It is still read by many children obliviously to this day.