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TIL February 30th happened once in 1712 in Sweden.

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1aXP4 TIL three Israeli brothers—Ramy, Muzher, and Shadde Badir—managed to set up an extensive phone and computer fraud scheme in Israel in the 1990s, despite all of them being born blind.
BKpD TIL Brooke Shields’ father’s family paid her mother a sum of money to abort her. Her mother took the money but refused to honor the agreement.
9YyD6 TIL about Atomic Vets that were soldiers secretly exposed to nuclear weapons by the US during the cold war
ADAgg TIL Jackie Robinson was court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of an Army bus, 11 years before Rosa Parks.
exY4 TIL “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell received a dog when he got home to aide in his recovery. in 2009 4 men shot the dog, and Luttrell chased the men in his truck through four counties with 2 pistols until the cops showed up.