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TIL a fire department dispatcher in told a caller to 'Deal with it yourself' while she was helping a young boy who was wounded from a drive-by shooting. The boy died and the dispatcher Matthew Sanchez was eventually fired, but won a lawsuit saying he was fired unfairly and won $25,000 as a result.

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dP5j TIL there is a tree in India whose canopy covers 3.7 acres (14,5000 square meters) in area making it the widest tree in the world.
WkOa9 TIL the film 'Ken Park' (2002) was not shown in the United Kingdom after director Larry Clark assaulted Hamish McAlpine, the head of the UK distributor for the film, Metro Tartan
Po9J TIL that during filming Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole added foam rubber to his camel saddle to increase comfort. This eventually spread across the Middle East and O'Toole was called the “Father of Rubber”
JWA4 TIL that any North Koreans that escape to South Korea are automatically granted citizenship upon arrival
pYYdO TIL the asteroid impact that caused the dinosaur extinction set 70% of the world's forests on fire, caused tsunamis that rose to a height of 300ft (100m), and ejected 25 trillion metric tons of debris into the atmosphere that reduced sunlight by up to 90% for a decade.