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TIL in 2013, a 7 year-old was suspended for two days when a teacher thought that his Pop-Tart looked like a gun.

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N77rP TIL that diets with high sugar intake interfere with the brain’s signal to tell your body you are full.
Jp0B TIL an Australian doctor named Dr Jack Barnes stung himself, his nine year old son, and a local lifeguard with the Irukandji jellyfish to prove it was the then-unknown cause of Irukandji Syndrome. All three developed the syndrome, and the jellyfish was named Carukia barnesi after him.
E1Ek7 TIL Singing 'My Way' by Frank Sinatra is banned in Karaoke Bars in the Philippines because people have been murdered while singing it. It is unknown why.
kKRd TIL A few days before delivering the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln saw John Wilkes Booth perform as a villain in a play at Ford’s Theatre. Someone told Lincoln, “He almost seems to be reciting these lines to you.” To which Lincoln replied, “He does talk very sharp at me, doesn’t he?”
d84J7 TIL that Philip of Hesse, after having a scandalous relationship exposed, declared his mistress dead of the plague and threw a massive church funeral for her. In reality, he had buried a wooden doll and had smuggled the mistress off to a castle where he continued to have children with her.