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TIL Students at an Illinois High School played Justin Bieber’s single, “Baby” over the PA system continuously for three days until the students donated $1,000 to the school’s art center

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grA87 TIL that after being killed during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the body of Brown's son Watson was severely mutilated and put on display in a nearby medical college by pro-slavery secessionists. Union soldiers burned the college to the ground in 1862.
789Ab TIL in 2022, aquaculture surpassed capture fisheries as the main producer of aquatic animals for the first time. Global aquaculture production reached an unprecedented 130.9 million tonnes, of which 94.4 million tonnes are aquatic animals, 51 percent of the total aquatic animal production
dDRod TIL that in 1933, FBI Director John Edgar Hoover learned of a namesake who had failed to pay a debt of $900 to a store in Washington. As Hoover was particular about paying his bills on time and so did not want to be associated with this disreputable behavior, he changed his name to "J. Edgar Hoover"
78y77 TIL: In the early 90s the US interred HIV positive Haitians in "HIV Camps" at Guantanamo, where they lived in deplorable conditions and subject to abuse by the US Military. Cubans held at the camp were preferentially treated better.
8aWE4 TIL of Koča Popović, a Yugoslav politician and Spanish Civil War veteran who is referred to as "The man who saved the Partisans" because of his breakthrough plans during Operation Southeast Croatia and at the Battle of Sutjeska both of which could have led to the annihilation of the resistance.