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TIL in college Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal tried to perform exorcism on a classmate who was undergoing chemotherapy.

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d8g6r TIL In 1943 German student Sophie Scholl was sentenced to death for her role in the White Rose non-violent resistence group. The entire process of being taken from her cell to being executed by guillotine was recorded as having taken 48 seconds.
ANGdx TIL after the Chicago font was created, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport adopted the typeface for its ROTUNDA sign.
lojNN TIL There is a Canadian TV anchor who translates all the English news into Inuktitut live on air. Igalaaq is the only Inuktitut supper hour TV program in the whole country where unilingual Inuktitut speakers have this one chance, for 30 minutes, to see someone speaking their language
5YWnR TIL that on April 4, 1964, the Beatles had all of the top five singles in the USA, the only time this has ever happened.
Yp5Nr TIL researchers successfully killed MRSA (the antibiotic resistant superbug) with a blue laser and peroxide. They found a blue light can "bleach" the protective layer of the MRSA membrane which then makes it more vulnerable. This weakened it enough for hydrogen peroxide to finish the job.