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TIL rapper Immortal Technique used to bully playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda in high school

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ADV9B TIL: In May of 2012, a U.S. nuclear sub was damaged beyond repair by fire. Investigators eventually discovered that a sailor had set the fire to "get out of work early." He was sentenced to 17 years in prison and ordered to pay $400 million to replace the sub.
M7Qa7 TIL Peter Weller, who played RoboCop, went on to get his Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History and wrote his dissertation about Renaissance artist/philosopher Leon Battista Alberti
YpRPB TIL if you fail your driving test in Switzerland more than 3 times you must take a psychological exam before being allowed to retake it.
dDDo7 TIL about Eyam, a village that self- quarantined after the Plague arrived in 1665 to successfully stop it from spreading to neighbouring villages.
nWpA9 TIL about a Burial Tax: a local tax was in place requiring a fee to be paid for "perpetual" burial. Some bodies for which the tax was not paid were disinterred and are in a museum