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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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1aLBX TIL that the reason that the anime Paranoia Agent had a bombastic and energetic opening is because its creator, Satoshi Kon, was well aware that his anime was being viewed at night. The opening would grab your attention and then the soft ending would lull you to sleep.
awGxN TIL In the midst of the French Revolution in the 1790s, the French government adopted French Revolutionary Time, which divided the day into 10 hours, with 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute; it lasted all but 17 months.
5nxk TIL Volkswagen owns Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, and Ducati
97B6 TIL a man stole a Salvador Dali painting in full view of security cameras in broad daylight, mailed it back to the museum a week later, and was only caught because he had shoplifted a juice bottle a year prior, allowing police to match his fingerprints on the package to those on the bottle.
4Xkw6 TIL of a blood group called Bombay Blood Group originated in India.It is also called the HH group.An extremely rare ABO group. A rare phenotype is generally present in about 0.0004% (4 per million) of the human population, Bombay(Mumbai) locals can have occurrences in as much as 0.01% (1 in 10,000).