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TIL A teenager fooled an entire school, a car dealership, and police officers that he was the youngest elected State Representative ever. He was escorted around the school, given a tour, and even spoke to the high school students about his involvement in politics.

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LkL5p TIL United Way set a world record by releasing almost one-and-a-half million balloons that resulted in unexpected disaster. The event was intended to be a harmless fundraising publicity stunt, but the balloons drifted back over the city, Lake Erie, and landed in the surrounding area.
N75oE TIL of Iqbal Masih, a young boy who was rescued from slavery at a carpet loom. This young activist was assassinated at the age of 12 in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1995 by someone believed to be a feudal landlord and carpet manufacturer.
v5aB TIL of several unusual units of measurement, including the nanocentury (3.155 seconds), pony (0.75 ounces of liquor), light-foot (amount of time it takes light to travel one foot, or 1.0167 nanoseconds), banana equivalent dose (amount of radiation absorbed from eating a banana), and more.
6EYRm TIL, Venus is the only planet that rotates around the sun in a clockwise pathway. All planets, when observed from the North Pole are seen to be rotating around the sun in an anti-clockwise direction on their elliptical orbits. Venus is observed to rotate in a clockwise manner.
YpXEx TIL: John Williams lost the 1977 Original Score Oscar for Close Encounters to himself, for Star Wars