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TIL that Daveigh Chase (little girl from The Ring) has committed animal abuse on a dog, even going as far as to leave it abandoned on a Nevada highway with a cigarette burn on it’s neck. Her boyfriend successfully took the dog’s new family to court and retained custody.

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VBLX8 TIL that an Indian lawyer sued the Hindu god Rama over mistreatment of his wife Sita
9Yj6m TIL Sadie Hawkins is based off a comic where a dude has an ugly daughter who can’t find a husband so he forces all the men in town to race and the slowest one marries her
gMPX9 TIL: When Hall of Fame NFL Running back , Curtis Martin, was 15 years old, he was held up with a loaded gun to his head. The criminal pulled the trigger seven times, but no bullet came out. On the eighth trigger pull, the gun discharged while aimed elsewhere
woVoM TIL that a trio of drunken boys decided to sail out to sea looking for a girl they saw at a sports competition event. They ended up sailing for more than seven weeks and drifted 1300 km off course before being rescued by a tuna boat. They all survived by drinking beer, eating coconuts and a bird.
MeaZa TIL in 1978, two punk bands, "the cramps" and "the mutants", were booked to play a live show at a mental institution in Napa, California. At onother point, the mutants played at a school for the deaf, with the kids holding balloons in their hand in order to "feel the music"