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TIL I learned a 17yo killed 4 people and injured 11 while drunk driving. The judge didn’t send him to jail because he “was unable to understand the consequences of his actions because of his financial privilege”

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aBky TIL a woman sued P. Diddy for 1 trillion dollars, claiming he was behind 9/11 and had fathered her child.
mxD4Y TIL of the He-gassen, a 17th-century Japanese art scroll depicting people having "Fart competitions". The author is unknown.
kOY6m TIL About Albert Göring, the brother of Hermann Göring (2nd most powerful man in Nazi Germany), who was a rabid anti-nazi that helped save the lives of countless Jews and other dissidents.
Xdj6 TIL a few weeks before Abraham Lincoln was elected president, 11 year old Grace Bedell sent Lincoln a letter encouraging him to grow a beard, writing, “All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you…” By the time of his inauguration, Lincoln had a full beard.
5we9 TIL That Dunkin Donuts in South Korea started spraying coffee aroma into public buses every time their jingle played. Coffee sales increased 29%.