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TIL United Airlines Kicked Girl With Autism Off United Plane
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TIL that GM and Ford each pay their CEOs about as much as the total combined salaries of Toyota’s entire executive team.
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TIL that Los Angeles County libraries allow kids 21 and under to read away what they owe in late fees at a rate of $5 per hour. Since the program launched last year, LA County libraries have logged more than 50,000 reading sessions and reinstated more than 13,000 previously blocked accounts.
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TIL that Union General John Sedgwick’s last words were, “I’m ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” He fell over with a bullet hole under his left eye seconds later.
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TIL that the five largest tobacco companies pay US$9 billion dollars to state governments, each and every year, forever, because of a 1998 legal settlement meant to compensate states for the costs of tobacco-related illness such as cancer, emphysema and heart disease.
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TIL about the medieval murder of William de Cantilupe by members of his own household, and the feud that began over his late brother's lack of genitals