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TIL that in 2013 a woman sued her former employer after being fired for "gossping" in a gossip free workplace. Ironically, she had been complaining about her employers hiring/firing habits. She won

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4XdG6 TIL of Ruth Coker Burks aka the "Cemetery Angel" who at the height of the AIDS crisis put up her own money to take care of and buy medicine for AIDS patients and buried over 40 people in her family's cemetery plot, most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.
XD6X TIL the only person killed by an animal in Yosemite National Park was not killed by a bear, mountain Lion or a wolf but by a deer. They also cause the most injuries.
b9KAQ TIL of Rebecca Twigg. After winning two Olympic medals in cycling, six world championships, and appearing in Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, and numerous commercials, Twigg abruptly dropped out of the sport, had trouble holding down a desk job, and has been living on the street for years.
4XwWJ TIL that, on May 13, 1974, seventy three children were struck with a mysterious illness at a Florida elementary school. Suspecting a gas leak, the Dept. of Public Health sent investigators. Dr. Nitzkin, an epidemiologist, discovered it was mass hysteria: one child fainted and the others panicked.
d84Gd TIL a pilot of a mail carrier plane once flew upside down for an extended of period of time to disorient the disgruntled employee trying to murder him and his copilot with a hammer and speargun.