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TIL that speaking Kurdish in public was illegal in Turkey in the 90s

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o40L TIL that when Ellery Schempp won the landmark case which banned prayer in public schools, his high school principal wrote letters of disrecommendation to every college he applied to. He was accepted to each one.
68Wm TIL that a 2007 study found that the murder of Kitty Genovese was NOT witnessed by dozens of people who refused to help her
1a7pD TIL that Shakespeare likely smoked weed and described it as the "journey in my head"
v1eaR TIL Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz are second cousins. Their grandfathers were brothers in the Bahamas.
R77d4 TIL that on September 16, 1920, a bomb exploded on Wall Street outside the NYSE building, killing 33 people and injuring more than 400. The perpetrators were never found.