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TIL that in Telangana, India, a government school remains open to serve just one student—a young girl who attends classes all by herself.

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O7YL TIL that the “Banana Equivalent Dose” uses the banana as a basic unit of radiation when calculating radiation exposure levels, and is the original “banana for scale”
MeGG7 TIL between 1989 to 1992, Los Angeles watch merchant Lance Thomas was involved in 4 shootouts with armed robbers, killing 5 in exchange of being wounded 5 times but not severely. He eventually closed his shop to avoid further bloodshed two days before the 1992 L.A. riots broke out.
vPLB TIL during WWII the US government hired a psychoanalyst to research Hitler’s background and he discovered that Hitler’s father may have been the illegitimate son of a Rothschild, one of the wealthiest Jewish families in the world
grKW4 TIL Americans spend the same proportion of their income (.4%) on computers today as they did on nails in 1810
ZwaG TIL Bank of America has agreed to pay $410 million to settle its part in a class action lawsuit that accuses it and more than two dozen other lenders of manipulating debit transactions in order to charge excessive overdraft fees