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TIL that a teacher in Florida was suspended for trying to force a Jehovah’s Witness student to pledge allegiance to the U.S flag despite the fact that their denomination forbids doing so.

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NXEAM TIL The song "My Mammy" famously sung by Al Jolson in the first talkie film "The Jazz Singer"in 1927, was first sung in 1918 as a vaudeville act by William Frawley, who later became a star in the TV show "I Love Lucy".
grr7 TIL Condoms have a higher fail rate in India than most other places due to Indian penises being too small for said condoms.
ADkda TIL while in prison, US marines forced Saddham Hussein to watch the South Park Movie, which depicts him as gay and dating satan. The creators received a signed photo of Saddham in 2009 from the US Army 4th Infantry Division.
X0a9R TIL that most of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are from the Cretaceous period.
kODd1 TIL chemists have developed two plant-based plastic alternatives to the current fossil fuel made plastics. Using chemical recycling instead of mechanical recycling, 96% of the initial material can be recovered.