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TIL that a man killed his mother for not allowing him to buy Avril Lavigne concert tickets in 2008

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b68mj TIL of Vivienne Hole, the only member of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) killed during WWII. ENSA provided entertainment to British armed forces personnel. Hole was killed when her driver accidentally drove into a minefield.
grdR9 TIL the wrecked S. S. Minnow from Gilligan's Island was named after FCC Chairman Newton Minnow, who called television "a vast wasteland".
Mebra TIL that between 2007 and 2009, Zimbabwe’s currency reached an inflation rate of 79,000,000,000%, with the government printing 100 Billion dollar bills to keep up.
ae59 TIL that to show how Classical Chinese had become an impractical language, linguist Chao Yuen Ren wrote a 92-character poem in which every syllable has the sound “shi”. The poem “Shī Shì shí shī shǐ” translates to “Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den”.
neG09 TIL Heinrich Otto Wieland researched bile acids, toad poisons and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Wieland also protected people, especially Jewish students, who were "racially burdened" after the Nuremberg Laws. Expelled students could stay in his group as chemists