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TIL a bus monitor received 700k from a go-fund me after a video of 7th graders relentlessly bullying her was uploaded online

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bDJa TIL that the Norway’s first aircraft hijacking was resolved after the hijacker surrendered his weapon in exchange for more beer.
lRjK TIL the fastest speeding ticket ever was issued in Texas to a driver who was going 242 MPH in a 75 MPH zone.
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.
OGYb4 TIL when a coal waste pile collapsed onto the Welsh village of Aberfan in 1966, school lunch lady Nansi Williams saw the disaster coming and flung herself onto five schoolchildren to shield them from the avalanche. All five children survived, but Nansi did not.
a8kWL TIL The poverty rate in Canada was 8.1% in 2020, down from 14.5% in 2015.