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TIL that the inventor of white out was fired from her job for not whiting out a mistake she made.

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VBrdZ TIL June Huh dropped out of high school & then took 6 years to earn his B.S. Though a professor had sparked an interest in mathematics, he was accepted into only 1 PhD program due to his undergraduate experience. However at age 39, he was awarded the Fields Medal "the highest honor in mathematics".
68gw TIL that Tsar Peter III of Russia court-martialed and hanged a rat which had chewed the heads off his toy soldiers.
G0LN TIL that in 2012, Walmart held a contest, in which the rapper Pitbull would perform in a Walmart with the most likes on its FB page. After the #ExilePitbull Twitter campaign, the shop in the remote island town of Kodiak, Alaska, ended up winning.
W74ON TIL about Operation Snow White, a criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. It included a infiltrations and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates.
n88r TIL that polar bears sometimes inter-breed with grizzly bears creating a hybrid bear known as a pizzly bear, a prizzly bear, or a grolar bear