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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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NyZP TIL when Eminem heard Ice Ice Baby for the first time, he “felt like he didn’t want to rap anymore.”
4XdyJ TIL During WWII, the only US land operation to take place on the Japanese home islands was performed by a submarine (U.S.S Barb). Crew from the sub went onto to the island and placed explosives on some tracks, which ended up sending a train into the ocean. The barb is the only sub to sink a train.
4XdG6 TIL of Ruth Coker Burks aka the "Cemetery Angel" who at the height of the AIDS crisis put up her own money to take care of and buy medicine for AIDS patients and buried over 40 people in her family's cemetery plot, most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.
9LLp TIL The eBay secondary market for Nike shoes is conservatively estimated at $230 million which would represent 8.5% of Nike earnings for 2014. Nike is happy this market exists and isn’t trying to stop it because the sneakerheads that drive it spread the Nike gospel better than they can.
EWGd TIL that “Greeble” is the name given to the texture applied to Sci-Fi spaceship models for the purpose of making them appear more complex