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TIL in 2016, a 17-year-old girl in Denmark successfully stopped an assault by using pepper spray. The man was never caught, but she was charged for the illegal possession of pepper spray.

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neJGb TIL Martin Luther was virulently antisemitic and his writings were used by the Nazis to justify their hatred of Jews
wLaNW TIL that the “Horned crocodile -faced hell heron” dinosaur was one of two new dinosaur species recently discovered on the UK’s Isle of Wight. Each were about 30 feet long and lived 125 million years ago.
e0bE TIL only humans have pubic hair
5VlY8 TIL the US Mint has a dollar coin honoring the first home video game system developed in 1966 by Ralph Baer. The obverse features the Statue of Liberty and the reverse depicts the 'Handball' video game.
RKjw TIL Ray Bradbury initially titled Fahrenheit 451 as “The Fireman”, but while he inquired local fire station about what temperature book paper burnt at, the firemen actually burnt a book and replied that the temp it burnt at was “Fahrenheit 451”.