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TIL Weird Al Yankovic was the valedictorian of his high school

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Lvo0 TIL that in 2006, a Tennessee woman shot her sleeping husband in the back with a shotgun. She received 60 days in a mental health facility and less than one year of probation. She also retained full custody of his children.