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TIL five teens who defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia with racist graffiti were sentenced by a judge to read and write reports on 35 books by authors such as Elie Wiesel, Khaled Hosseini, and Maya Angelou. They were also ordered to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.

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9YvOX TIL Wolfgang Doeblin, a Jewish-German mathematician fighting for the French during WWII. He committed suicide at 25 after his company was surrounded. A sealed letter he sent to the French Academy of Sciences was opened in 2000, revealing he had already proven a famous result in stochastic calculus.
9jl6 TIL After being pulled from his car after having a serious accident, Sam Kinison had a conversation with a person nobody else could see, saying “I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.”, he paused, then asked “But why?”. After another pause, his friend heard him clearly say: “Okay, okay, okay.”
l7K0B TIL that the character of Sam Malone in TV sitcom CHEERS, early in the casting process comedian Bill Cosby was considered. The role went to Ted Danson in the end.
KYMn6 TIL about the Niland Geyser, a mud spring that actually moves from one place to another. Engineers even tried to stop it from impinging on the Union Pacific Railroad, but failed.
kJxZ7 TIL that despite his worsening ALS condition, Jason Becker managed to finish recording guitar for David Lee Roth's A Little Ain't Enough album, and has lived over 34 years and released multiple albums since his diagnosis in 1989