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TIL A substitute teacher was fired after she asked her 4th grade students for dating advice. She had her class to help her decide between two men she was seeing.

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jNV7M TIL of the Wave of Death. When drivers inadvertently wave pedestrians into harm's way when forgoing their right of way out of politeness.
AGL7 TIL In 526 there was a worldwide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for an entire year. It resulted in widespread famine and disease. More than 80% of Scandinavia and China starved to death, 30% of Europe died and empires fell. The cause is unknown.
kmrm TIL: In 1973, a man tried to rob a bank in Kenora Ontario with dynamite strapped to his chest. A police sniper shot him, detonating the explosives and blowing him up. He has never been identified.
YpAkd TIL the Danish police resisted Nazi command so fiercely that 1,960 of its 10,000 police members were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Faced with Nazi demands, the Danish police administration was inclined to accepted them, but the Police organizations refused, leading to the deportations.
wDVo TIL Asperger syndrome is named for Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger, who described it in 1944. He called his patients “Little Professors.”