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TIL US airline workers handled a cellist's case so badly they broke both the case and the cello inside it. Southwest Airlines called it a 'baggage handling irregularity'

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Kgoa TIL that Andrew Carnegie funded an organization whose goal it was to simplify spelling in the English language. Teddy Roosevelt began using the reformed spelling in his official communications and tried to get the federal government to follow suit, but Congress unanimously voted to stop him.
LgNV TIL a 12 year old boy was tried as an adult and sentenced to 25 years in prison after following a 15 year old boy and helping him kill the 15 year old’s stepdad.
v1d78 TIL During the Trial of Joan of Arc, the prosecution, headed by Pierre Cauchon, sent an agent to France to collect dirt on her life in her home village. Cauchon was enraged when the agent "had found nothing concerning Joan that he would not have liked to find about his own sister".
V1pp TIL one of the worst nuclear accidents in history occurred after a security guard skipped his shift at an abandoned medical facility housing a radiological device to watch “Herbie Goes Bananas”
epmQ4 TIL Zoroastrianism's emphasis on the protection and veneration of nature and its elements makes the religion "world's first proponent of ecology."