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TIL that in 2013, an officer of Nashville's Covenant Church (which runs the school where yesterday's shooting occurred) sued the Covenant organization for allegedly shielding a child molester. The whistleblow charged that Covenant engages in "cult-like abuse of authority over vulnerable children."

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X0B0R TIL in 1998, a 10-year-old girl in Austria was dragged into a car and kidnapped. The case was unsolved by authorities for 8 years until in 2006 she knocked on someone’s door and said “I am Natascha Kampusch.” She had just escaped the cellar she was being abused in by a local technician.
wo0P6 TIL Disagreeing with his contemporaries generally who saw the roman republic as disunited and disorganised because of the plebeian uprisings, Niccolo Machiavelli defended said uprisings as essential to liberty and argued in favor of strikes and non-violent popular dissent
xVl91 TIL of the Peanut Butter Hearings of 1959, which took place after the FDA revealed that leading peanut butter products only contained 75% peanuts to cut costs. This enraged the public, who began referring to these products as “peanut-flavored face cream” and standard of at least 90% peanuts was set.
M7Vxa TIL that the word boner also means 'careless mistake' and was used mainly with that meaning in the past
oNQY TIL the idiom “Turning a blind eye” is attributed to Admiral Horatio Nelson who, in the midst of battle and given the permission to retreat by his superior, lifted the telescope to his eye (blinded from an earlier injury) and said “I really do not see the signal” and pressed on with the attack.