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TIL because of the “Harlem Shake” hundreds of students have been disciplined, fifteen Aussie miners fired, and there is even an FAA investigation.

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l7xPB TIL about the Children’s Crusade, where thousands of European children thought that God would allow them to take over Jerusalem, even though 3 previous crusades had failed
wAR7 TIL that the lower ranks of the US Navy can be sentenced to rations of bread and water for not more than 3 days as punishment for misconduct
okNr TIL Daniel Day-Lewis broke down in tears while playing Hamlet in 1989, because he thought he saw the ghost of his own dead father on stage with him. He quit the production and hasn’t been on stage since
wlDo TIL Hugh Laurie realised he had severe clinical depression after seeing two cars collide and explode in front of him, which caused him to be neither excited nor frightened, but bored.
0dA1N TIL during WWII, German pilot Walter Nowotny managed to shoot down ten planes in one day twice and five planes in one day 17 times.