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TIL initial news reporting the morning after Hurricane Katrina hit claimed the city had “dodged a bullet”, as Katrina veered away from a direct hit at the last minute and shrunk from a Category 5 to Category 3.

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NEvQ TIL Nova Scotia’s provincial flag was first confirmed in 2013, 155 years after its creation. This occurred after an 11 year girl old working on a project realized that politicians had never officially recognized the flag.
7ryxM TIL the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group found seven previously unacknowledged massacres from 1967 through 1971 in which at least 137 civilians were killed. The harshest sentence was 20 years but the officer served 7 months.
QleM TIL Will Smith turned down the role of Django in Django Unchained because it “wasn’t the lead” .
jNmmv TIL that in 1970 a grass roots organization known as the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America was launched by mathematician Ira Gessel due to his frustrations over public pay toilets'. He was largely successful in pressuring city councils, lik Chicagos to eliminate the condition to pay for relief
11kd TIL of Brenda Spencer, who shot up an elementary school at age 16, killing two and injuring eight children and a cop. When questioned why she did it, she simply said, “I don’t like Mondays.”