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TIL You cant sue your bank…no matter what they do.

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kOyxg TIL Dred Scott, following the infamous 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled he was neither free nor a citizen, was nonetheless freed along with his family by an abolitionist relative of his original owners less than three months later. He lived free less than two years before he died of tuberculosis.
78Qwx TIL, Popular gamer Matthew Thane was shot and killed after an online feud with fellow gamer 23-year-old Alexander Baro. Alexander had gotten so angry that he drove 1,700 miles from California to Texas just to shoot and kill Matthew. After driving the 1,700 miles back home he shot and killed himself.
j6EAX TIL that in the original version of the melodrama cliché, a man is tied to the railroad tracks and gets rescued by a woman.
0wY8j TIL: Completed in 2007, Moscow now has a whole extra Kremlin. This one's mostly for shopping.
BgVaD TIL in 1318 a pretender to the throne, John Deydras, was hanged for sedition. At trial he had blamed his cat (devil in disguise). So they hanged the cat as well.