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TIL Starbucks charged rescue workers for bottled water during 9/11.

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Z8VpG TIL Due to a error in 2014, a U.S Government Agency accidentally drafted thousands of men born in the 1800’s.
8epEa TIL Chicks can be born with four legs
NXB7J TIL in 2019, the UK granted asylum to a 14-year-old boy and admitted him to a local high school. He was asking 14yo girls out and changing with 14yo boys in PE. It later turned out he was actually an adult who was wanted for murder in Serbia.
oB90K TIL Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a letter asking MLK for his support to end the Vietnam War. In the letter, Thich described why monks would self-immolate as an act of protest. MLK nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in January 1967. Unfortunately, that year no Peace Prize was awarded.
yv8a TIL that he head of MGM referred to Judy Garland as his “little hunchback,” and forced her to wear caps on her teeth and rubber disks in her nose. She was given amphetamines and barbituates as a child actress. This lead to the lifelong self-esteem and drug problems that later killed her.