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TIL people over 40 are a protected class in California. We’re not that old damn it!

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xVYDb TIL about Dina Sanichar the true inspiration behind'The Jungle Book'. Found by some hunters in a cave in Bulanshahr, India, Dina was a feral child raised by wolves. Forced to live in a human society for 20 years: couldn't learn how to walk or talk but got addicted to smoking and died of tuberculosis
eQ9g TIL when Steve Kerr, coach of the Golden State Warriors & former teammate of Michael Jordan, was in college his dad was assassinated by extremists in Beirut. During a subsequent basketball game opposing fans chanted “your father’s history” while a teary eyed Kerr scored 20 points in the first half.
vPe48 TIL comic book writer Mark Millar auctioned off the right to name the hero of his series Nemesis. He donated the winning bid, $8,500, to his brother's charity for special needs kids.
epR1L TIL that the first cure for tuberculosis, streptomycin, was developed by a 23 year old grad student at Rutgers, Albert Schatz. It was also effective against other penicillin resistant infections and the first life saved with the drug was a young lieutenant wounded in Italy named Bob Dole.
MeK7b TIL That Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin concluded the first that stars were primarily made of hydrogen and helium in her 1925 thesis, but added that her results were "spurious" because of the consensus at that time. She was eventually proved right by other researchers, yet is almost never credited.