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TIL two thirds of teenagers in the UK are atheists

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epZPL TIL in 2012, a California high school student was directed to urinate in a bucket in a supply room closet after a teacher mistakenly believed that bathroom breaks were not permitted. In 2017, a court ordered the school district to pay the student $1.25 million.
OGbOR TIL The South African colonial government used to issue licenses for people to hunt The hunter-gatherer San people, with the last one being reportedly issued in Namibia in 1936
BgwDx TIL that John Quincy Adams won the 1824 US Presidential Election despite only winning 32.7% of the Electoral College vote
Z89la TIL that a Bonsai tree survive during atomic bomb at Hiroshima and is now present in U.S National Arboretum.
WkNZY TIL that Doctor Min Chiu Li was fired from the NIH in the 1950s because he gave chemotherapy to patients even after their tumors appeared to be gone. After firing him, the NIH discovered the long-term survival rates for his patients were far superior to conventional treatments.