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TIL In 1982, a lady by the name of Deborah Mathers sued Dort Elementary School because her 9-year-old son Marshall was bullied and beaten so severely that he suffered several injuries, including a cerebral concussion, repetitive loss of vision and hearing, and other such ailments.

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PoNE TIL that there is a mushroom that is only found in two specific locations: Texas and Japan, 6800 miles/11000km apart.
Z8W8R TIL that King Frederik VII of Denmark was the last monarch to rule in Denmark as an absolute monarch and that when he died childless in 1863, a succession crisis ensued.
WaEL TIL in an act of rare serendipity, the longest eclipse to occur in several hundred years coincided with the development of the supersonic Concorde. So naturally, astronomers chartered the plane to “[chase] the eclipse across the Earth at twice the speed of sound.”
WkDr9 TIL in 2009 an oil futures trader traded 7 million barrels of oil during an "alcohol-induced blackout", causing a loss of nearly $10M to his company and briefly driving the oil price up by over $1.50 per barrel
R5DGl TIL Walter Cronkite initially came to fame as a war reporter during WW2. Cronkite was the first American to do an uncensored report on Operation Torch, flew in bombing raids, fired a machine gun at a German fighter, covered the Nuremberg Trials, and was a reporter in Moscow from 1946-48.