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TIL In Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania high school officials lacked the authority to discipline a student for an off-campus, vulgar Snapchat post that she made in frustration after not making the varsity cheerleading squad.

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9jEG TIL the words “apron” and “napkin” were originally “napron” and “apkin” but the preceding indefinite articles (“an” and “a”) were so confusing to the ear that the words eventually just changed.
NXxeN TIL that it takes 28% to 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.
eeZL TIL famous hacker Kevin Mitnick played a computer expert in the first season of Alias. They used dummy computers since touching one violated his parole.
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