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TIL: After suing Facebook for deleting his profile, Jason Crawford (from Georgia, USA) was awarded $52K USD.

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oKko TIL that just one white European has ever run a 100m race in under 10 seconds.
yREw TIL when composer Frédéric Chopin was on his death bed he asked that when he died his body be cut open and the heart removed to be buried in his homeland of Poland. Upon his death, his sister smuggled the heart out of France, delivering it to the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw.
e0BEJ TIL During WW2 Joe Medicine Crow, a native American, completed all four feats required to be a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy's weapon, leading a war party and stealing 50 horses from the SS, singing a Crow honour song as he rode away.
XE5VE TIL that a jazz musician named Teri Pall invented a version of the cordless phone in 1965 but could not market her invention, as its 2-mile range caused its radio signals to interfere with aircraft communications.
Ewap TIL of Kishan Shrikanth, who’s listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest person to direct a professional feature film, for directing his first film at age 10