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TIL: An Israeli captain who emptied the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a fleeing 13-year-old Palestinian girl was acquitted on all charges

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LkM8m TIL that when Weird Al Yankovic parodied the Nirvana song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Titled "Smells like Nirvana"), frontman and guitarist Kurt Cobain considered the parody as a sign that the band had "made it".
WkvEo TIL that Dave Thomas, the founder of the successful fast food chain, Wendy’s, worked at KFC prior to Wendy’s and was responsible for the red and white striped chicken bucket design.
56dp TIL that the average person takes about 7 minutes to fall asleep .
9YM5G TIL up until around the 1970s, hospital laboratory workers used mouth pipetting to transfer patient's blood for testing from one container to the next, frequently getting the patients blood or other chemicals in their mouth.
65Pl TIL that the wind on neptune is so fast that it breaks the sound barrier