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TIL a high-school student sued his school district after they suspended him for three days for giving an innuendo-laden speech at a school assembly. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court.

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XEPLP TIL that in 1999, Furbies were banned from the National Security Agency's Maryland headquarters because it was feared the toys might repeat national security secrets.
awPO9 TIL that babies have 300 bones while adults have 206 bones in their bodies.
8aggG TIL that in 2017 during the Me Too movement, the late Anthony Bourdain expressed remorse that his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential "celebrated or prolonged a culture that allowed the kind of grotesque behaviors we're hearing about all too frequently"
groN9 TIL that Paris Hilton's Grandfather was so disgusted by her and her sister's antics that instead of leaving his $4.5 B fortune to his 24 heirs, he gave 97% of it to his family charity and instead of getting $181 M each, each heir only received $5.6M. Paris still has $300M from her antics though.
pYDaG TIL that between 1962–1965, the largest brain-eating amoeba outbreak killed 16 people in Czechoslovakia after a swimming pool was shortened, creating warm stagnant water — it took years to identify the source