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TIL that an 11-year-old boy was suspended for a year for possession of a “marijuana leaf” that tested negative for marijuana three times.

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D1kaD TIL that it took 80 years from the invention of the telephone for call centres to become a mainstream part of business
noYo TIL when Russian pianist and composer Julius Isserlis defected in 1922, he found an apartment in Vienna, but the 102-year old landlady refused to rent to him since the last musician tenant was noisy and would spit on the floor. That tenant was Beethoven…
5Vwg9 TIL in 2010, officials in Tokyo went to congratulate the oldest man in the city, Sogen Kato, on his 111th birthday, but instead found his skeletal remains on his bed. He’d been dead for 30 years but his family had kept it secret to continue collecting his pension money.
0dvRj TIL During the last Ice Age the ice mass could have been up to three kilometres thick
oRP1R TIL that the character D-day from Animal House (1978) can actually play songs on his throat.