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TIL that in 2001 a 10-year-old girl named Laura Buxton released a balloon with her name and address on it, which floated 140 miles and landed in the backyard of a house where also lived a 10-year-old girl named Laura Buxton. The coincidences of the event only grow as you read more into it.

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N7Goe TIL The 1971 Coca-Cola ad ‘I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)’ featured a group of young multicultural people lip-synching the song on a hill to represent global unity. The South African government requested a version of the ad but without the black actors. Coca Cola refused
8pLL TIL Goodwill is a multibillion dollar company, but pays some of it’s disabled workers as little as 22 cents an hour due to a legal loophole.
Bg6MW TIL that a television station (channel 42) in Alabama aired a countdown clock at 5 and 10 p.m. for a month because it fired all of its on-air presenters as well as other news employees in December 1997.
gRGX TIL that school administrators let 16-year old Bill Gates write the computer code to schedule their students in classes. He modified the code so he was placed with “a disproportionate number of interesting girls”.
0d0K1 TIL the Expatriation Act of 1907 forced U.S. women to lose their citizenship if they married foreign nationals, automatically adopting their husband's nationality. This discriminatory policy was overturned by the Cable Act of 1922, which restored women’s right to retain their citizenship.