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TIL a woman sued Walmart for charging her $1.00 on a $0.98 item and was awarded $180.00, making it the most successful lawsuit with the award being 9000 times the disputed amount

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VMQPQ TIL that Benjamin Franklin, to drive sales of his almanac, predicted that a rival publisher would die on a certain date. When the rival didn’t die, Franklin published his obituary anyway and claimed the rival was an imposter. After the rival’s death, Franklin commended the imposters for stopping.
GYD1g TIL In the third episode of season four of Game of Thrones, the Meereenese rider who challenges Daenerys' champion was hurling abuses which actually were Low Valyrian translation of the French guy's insults in Monty Python And The Holy Grail, such as "your mother was a hamster".
ANXm7 TIL Someone actually patented a system to prevent snake bites. The snake repellent system is a wearable device that uses the aroma of garlic or onion to repel snakes and prevent snake bites.
NjwP TIL (When looking back at how big France has played apart in American history) Congress wore black and mourning badges for 30 days after Lafayette’s death, the same treatment Washington got.
8aRML TIL of Nellie Bly, a 19th century female journalist who went around the world in 72 days, pretended to be insane in order to expose the deplorable conditions in mental asylums, patented two designs for steel cans and ran a million-dollar iron manufacturing business, all before the age of 40.