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TIL Ted Kennedy crashed a car into water and fled the scene as his passenger died. He only received two months' probation.

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9wVlM TIL that the invention of the modern TV remote control stemmed from a dislike of commercials.
OOda TIL L. Ron Hubbard considered himself a nuclear physicist, even though his degree was from an unaccredited university. The one course in nuclear physics Hubbard took was in 1931, whose records indicate that he scored an F in the course. Hubbard dropped out of school shortly thereafter with a 2.28GPA
XBJQ TIL that the last Democrat elected to replace another Democrat as president was James Buchanan, in 1856.
E1EmW TIL in 1940, French soldiers in Lille held off a German force 5 times their size, allowing 100,000 more Allied troops to evacuate at Dunkirk and prompting the German general to grand them an Honours of War ceremony after the surrender