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TIL The Rubber Room is a teacher jail in NY State where bad teachers who can’t be fired are sent to sit, do nothing, and still get paid.

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OGLLa TIL Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, organized soup kitchens and orphanages during the Nazi occupation of Greece. She would give away her own food to people on the street and she hid Jews in her home. She was also born deaf.
lb9A TIL of the Bloodbath of B-R5RB, a massive space battle in EVE Online that cost an estimated $300,000 USD
16Z88 TIL about William Chandler pilot flying for South Africa Airways for more than 20 years on a fake license.
LQxNV TIL 80% of families in Argentina have at least one pet in their home.
geVW TIL that Mexico’s imports of fresh produce account for 69% of U.S. fresh vegetable import value and 37% of U.S. fresh fruit.