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TIL: A Chicago high school played Justin Bieber's "Baby" in between classes in the hallways. As a fundraising technique they made students pay to stop the song. They raised $1,000 in three days.

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OoDx7 TIL about the surviving 2nd century Roman novel A True Story written by Lucian of Samosata. It is regarded as one of the first ever works of science fiction ever written and it features explorers flying to the moon, first contact with aliens, an interstellar war and the discovery of a new continent.
rN7Px TIL turtles and tortoises have nerve endings in the shells. They can feel you touch their shells as well as pain when something hurts their shell.
wxPM TIL that J.K. Rowling won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1997, 1998, and in 1999 for her first three Harry Potter books. This made her the first person to win the award three times running. She later withdrew the fourth novel from contention to allow other books a fair chance.
VM7xk TIL the ancient Egyptian population around the time they built the great pyramids of Giza was about 1.5 million. Roughly half the population of modern day Athens Greece.
WkbGN TIL that, despite the superior balistic performances of rifled muskets, the Americn Civil War losses by infantry fire were not much different from those suffered during the Napoleonic battles. Artillery, though, was much more lethal.