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TIL a high school in Chicago raised $1000 in three days by playing the song “Baby” by Justin Bieber during during passing period and having the students pay for them to stop the song.

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6XpY TIL Buzz Aldrin invented a way for a space station to perpetually switch orbits between Earth and Mars, dubbed the “Aldrin Mars Cycler”. It would greatly reduce costs of Mars colonization efforts if implemented.
QZbe TIL that in 1848 light-skinned slave Ellen Craft, unable to travel with him as a woman, escaped with her dark-skinned husband by pretending to be both a white man and her husband’s owner. They traveled openly, first class, a thousand miles north from Georgia to freedom.
O1ee TIL that in the state of Ohio 5,400 people are selected WEEKLY to prove they have active car insurance. If a person fails to do so their license is automatically suspended.
0dxy TIL Oskar Schindler, who saved over 1100 Jews in WWII by employing them, spent all his fortune on bribes and black market purchases for his workers. After the war he never regained any of his wealth and in later life had to live off of a small pension from the German government.
P1YOe TIL of "Unit 731", a secret Japanese research facility disguised as a water treatment plant during WWII. Responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes ever committed, researchers captured by the USA were secretly given immunity in exchange for the data gathered from their human experiments.