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TIL in June 2020, 20-year-old student Alexander Kearns committed suicide after the interface of the trading app Robinhood lead him to believe he owed $730,000, that he didn't, with the note, "How was a 20-year-old with no income able to get assigned almost a million dollars' worth of leverage?"

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KO444 TIL Mr T's real name is Lawrence Tureaud. He changed his name legally to Mr. T based upon childhood impressions regarding the lack of respect from white people for his family. He self-ordained himself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody's mouth is "Mr." which he considered a sign of respect.
rRKJ0 TIL that when the Prussians forbade the Danes from displaying their flag in the early 20th century, the Danes responded by creating a new breed of pig that resembled the Danish flag and displayed it instead
R9y8 TIL that each time a fertile man’s heart beats, he makes 1,500 new sperm.
6RJ TIL pus is white blood cells that died fighting off infection.
LGnd TIL Dragonflies are brutally effective killers, managing to capture their prey in midair more than 95 percent of the time