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TIL: A Man saves a drowning boy from a River, 30 Years after saving the same boys farther

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VjpD TIL A missing first amendment “one Representative for every fifty thousand persons”, got lost due to a clerical error. Today we have over 700k people per Rep.
1BdW TIL all pandas are owned by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years
VMm7Z TIL of Gabe Sonnier, a man who started off as a janitor in a Louisiana elementary school until one day in 1985, when he was inspired by the then-principal to take up teaching. Gabe was 39 years old when he started studying for a teaching degree. He’s now the principal of that elementary school.
XENXE TIL at 18 years old Qudsia Begum gave a speech at her husband's funeral convincing the male claimants to acknowledge her daughter as heir to Bhopal and herself as regent, starting a female Islamic dynasty in Bhopal that lasted 107 years
Wkmd8 TIL that Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" was not intended to be released as a single. They were later convinced to do so by Michael Jackson who had attended a Queen concert in Los Angeles and suggested it to Freddie Mercury backstage.