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TIL Principal Akbar Cook installed a free fully-stocked laundry room at school because students with dirty clothes were bullied and missing 3-5 days of school per month. Attendance rose 10%.

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Wk7x8 TIL that Key West declared war on the U.S. and then hit a U.S. soldier on the head with stale bread then immediately surrendered
VMX8 TIL that the gay pink triangle is rooted in the Nazi concentration camp badge system
ZOAo TIL that at the 2:58 mark in the song “Hey Jude”, Paul McCartney hits the wrong key on the piano and says “Fucking Hell”. John Lennon suggested that they keep it into the song, and so they dropped it into a low register. You can still hear it in the song to this day.
7ynM TIL the Presidential motorcade has 15 defined roles, including one car that is known as the “CAT” which carries a counter-assault team named “Hawkeye Renegade.”
ANJg7 TIL Mitch and Dallas Seavey, father and son dog mushers, are respectively the oldest and youngest winners of the Iditarod dogsled race. From 2012 to 2017, together they won six straight races.