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TIL that a school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice

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X0mPj TIL a 2018 study concluded the mortality risk for characters in Game of Thrones was high after finding that more than half of the important characters died (186/330 - 56.4%) by the end of Season 7. The chances of a character dying within the first hour that they appear was about 14%.
mx5my TIL after 30 WWII veterans in their mid-nineties were shown ‘Dunkirk,’ the general consensus among them was that they loved the film and thought it captured events very accurately, but “thought the soundtrack was louder than the actual bombardment.” The comment amused Nolan greatly.
OG4d1 TIL of Nadia Murad a Yazidi girl who was kidnapped and sold as a sex slave, later became the first Yazidi to win a Nobel Peace Prize but was boycotted by the superintendent at the Toronto District School Board over fears her story would promote Islamophobia
LAM0 TIL in 1967 The Outer Space Treaty was signed, creating a framework and laws as to what governments can and can’t do in space
JY6vv TIL while he was in prison awaiting his trail (and eventual execution), Saddam Hussen was forced by U.S. Marines to repeatedly watch “South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut,” in which he was portrayed as Satan’s homosexual lover.