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TIL of Richard Tarvin III. A man who sold part of his structured settlement annuity (SSA) worth more than $400,000 to J.G. Wentworth claims the financial services company took advantage of him and fraudulently advised him to use an attorney who was not "disinterested counsel."

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dDDA9 TIL about Malaga Island, a mixed race community off the coast of Maine that was forcibly depopulated in 1912.
pY4wG TIL Harvey Ball, the man who designed the popular smiley face graphic picture, never applied for a trademark for the smiley image and only earned $45 for his work. His son once said: “He was not a money-driven guy. He used to say: ‘Hey, I can only eat one steak at a time, drive one car at a time.'”
OG674 TIL slavery was restored in French colonies by Napoleon, causing a rebellion by former slaves led by Louis Delgrès. After realizing they could not win and refused to surrender, they ignited their gunpowder stores, committing suicide in the process, attempting to kill as many French troops as possibl
e0oJn TIL: The Bay View Massacre occurred in 1886 when workers demanded an 8-hour workday. When the workers shut down the town, the Governor of Wisconsin gave the National Guard orders to shoot-to-kill. When the Guard Captain got the orders, he picked a man out of the crowd and had him shot.
9Y6xM TIL: A series of 10 mass stabbings, hammer attacks, and cleaver attacks took place at different elementary schools in China over the course of 2 years. They left at least 25 dead, 115 injured, and were all unrelated.