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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.

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e1En TIL Naomi Watts’ father (Peter Watts) was a roadie for Pink Floyd in the 70’s and is responsible for the laughing heard on their 1973 album The Dark Side Of The Moon.
mxDGM TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien was inspired to write LOTR by the discovery of a cursed 4th century Roman gold ring that was discovered when he was a professor at Oxford
WRyB TIL The world’s largest moving object, the Bagger 288 Superexcavator, leaves virtually no tracks, even over grass. The sheer surface area of the tracks makes its ground pressure less than a barefoot person.
R694 TIL in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States.
BQ8b TIL renowned father of nuclear physics, Sir Ernest Rutherford needlessly died of a hernia as he was a Lord and no untitled doctors were allowed to touch him.