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TIL Optimus Prime is not a Jew (supported by verifiable source material).

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NyK6 TIL in 2013 a female professor attempted to give a public lecture on men’s rights at the University of Ottawa. 30 protesters harassed the meeting with megaphones outside until they were forced to change rooms, at which point the protesters pulled a fire alarm to force an evacuation of the lecture.
69D9Q TIL about Miller v Jackson (1977), where a cricket club was sued by a couple over balls landing in their garden. While the court ruled for the couple, Lord Denning's famous dissent argued that the public interest in cricket should prevail over the private interest of the homeowners.
QjaM TIL after receiving a local anesthetic and root-canal treatment at his dentist, a 38-yo man has been experiencing a real ‘Groundhog Day’ type memory loss. For the better part of a decade, he has woken up every morning thinking it is the day of his original dentist’s appointment
dDkJZ Til about Eben Byers, an early-1900s golfer who died after drinking over a thousand doses of Radithor, a "medicine" laced with radium.
0wy8R TIL that "Maris," the famous unseen character on the sitcom Frasier, was originally only going to off camera for a few episodes, but the increasing absurdity in which she was described forced the show into a box; they couldn't find an actress to meet the character's odd physical description.