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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.

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PYwaE TIL about the Aroostook War, a diplomatic spat between British Canada and the US over the official border between New Brunswick and Maine in 1838-39. While no shots were fired, police, militia and lumberjacks were mobilized. The only reported casualties were two Canadians mauled by a bear.
4Ybo TIL Ben Franklin left the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $2,000 in his will, but they could not draw the full balance for 200 years. In 1990, the cities received $6.5 million.
7r1p7 TIL about a “squirrel king” which is when a group of squirrels get their tails tied together
ynya TIL that Zdeno Chára, the 6’ 9" tall captain of the Boston Bruins, speaks seven different languages, has a financial planning diploma from Algonquin College, and holds a license allowing him to sell real estate in the State of Massachusetts.
ANYa7 TIL: Alfonso XII, King of Spain during the first Restoration, had his legitimacy questioned as his mother's consort was rumored to be homosexual; the real father was likely a palace guard commander. Alfonso didn't live to see the birth of his heir.