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TIL Cat Stevens wrote The First Cut Is The Deepest

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MPY7 TIL At age 12 and 13, Curtis Jones and his sister, apparent victims of sexual abuse, killed one of their alleged victimizers. Child welfare knew of the abuse, but did nothing. After the murder, the state charged them as adults. Instead of getting help, they got 18 years in prison.
OoneX TIL that Ropert Lopez, who won an Oscar for the Disney songs "Let it Go" and "Remember Me", also wrote the song "The Internet is for Porn" for the Tony Award-Winning show "Avenue Q".
69L4w TIL that Gaddafi sponsored financially struggling German ice hockey team, to promote his Green Book on their jersey. It was dropped soon after because of backlash.
mbDv TIL that in over 600 committed robberies, famous Australian bushranger Ben Hall was never responsible for one death.
p8d5e TIL Indian Maharaja Jam Sahib adopted 640 Polish orphans during WWII. He brought the children to the royal palace in Bombay, had a dormitory built for them, and brought in Polish teachers and chefs so the children would feel at home and "recover their health and forget the ordeal they went through".