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TIL in 1968, a student at UPenn announced that a dog would be burned alive with napalm. Thousands turned up to protest, were handed a leaflet reading: Congratulations on your anti-napalm protest. You saved the life of a dog. Now, how about saving the lives of tens of thousands of people in Vietnam.

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p8P7b TIL Cheryl Pierson was being abused by her dad but when he threatened to abuse her sister, 9, she hired a classmate to kill him. The judge was lenient on them both. When Cheryl got out, she wrote a book & the classmate went back to prison to run their college program.
4XrEg TIL that Weird Al Yankovic wrote the song "Yellow Snow" as a parody of Prince's "Purple Rain", but was not allowed to release it.
pYwZe TIL Vin Diesel has in his contract for the Fast & Furious franchise that he can never loose a fight
X1GP TIL Lee Harvey Oswald’s tax returns won’t be released until 2017, along with other “sensitive” JFK assassination documents. Oswald’s military intelligence file, however, was destroyed in 1973.
epD74 TIL that in the Irish language there are no words for “yes” or “no”