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a8NrN TIL a 13yo allergic to cheese died after a piece of cheese was thrown at him by a classmate.
yxRw TIL of Sergeant Willis Boshears, who strangled and killed another woman while he was asleep. He pleaded not guilty on the basis of being asleep at the time and was acquitted.
lodDV TIL about Junius Groves, a former slave who walked 500 miles from Kentucky to Kansas City, Kansas and became very wealthy after finding great success growing potatoes.
E1nww TIL that German Reformation leader Martin Luther was extremely antisemitic and advocated forced labor, expulsion, the burning of synagogues, of Jewish schools, and of Jewish books, and even their murder.
LQLer TIL that in 1958, author Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel prize in literature, but was forced by the communist party to abstain form accepting the award