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TIL Elvis Presley only ever failed one class, music.

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XJEX TIL that NBC censored a tribute to the victims of the 7/7 bombings from the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony coverage because ‘it wasn’t about America’
xVAy5 TIL: John Major, British Prime Minister (1990-1997), left school at 15 and only completed his O-levels years later by correspondence; this would be the equivalent of US president having only a GED.
6dZZ TIL 5% of India’s population is on Facebook,but already it has the third largest Facebook population in the world
PYAlO TIL In 2003, a farmer carrying a syringe loaded with cow antibiotics was knocked down by one of his cows and was accidentally injected. He was transported to the hospital where they called Poison Control, who told him there were no known antidotes. He died less than an hour later.
QNWG6 TIL: As many as a quarter million Chinese citizens were executed by Japanese forces as retaliation for helping the pilots that crashed landed during the Doolittle raid.