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TIL in 2012 a 6-year-old girl threw a temper tantrum so extreme she was handcuffed and taken to jail from her kindergarten class.

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VMmNp TIL that in 1772, a boy named Tarare was born with a peculiar deformity. He was able to eat anything without feeling full even after eating pounds of food. He died in 1792 from Tuberculosis, not obesity.
PLJg TIL, one man, Stanislav Petrov, effectively saved the world from nuclear war by not telling his superiors of his system reporting a nuclear attack by the US. The system had malfunctioned.
xVawo TIL that prefix for Mars related things would be "areo-" (e.g. areocentric orbit), compared to Earth's "geo-", and the Sun's "helio".
v14ox TIL Chumbawamba was at the forefront of the 1980s anarcho-punk movement.
wGL1 TIL that a fire in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 2002 killed 15 school girls. The girls were not allowed to leave the burning building by the state’s religious police because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress.