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TIL that in the USA only 19 states, plus Washington, D.C., make Kindergarten mandatory

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OorWY TIL that the 2000 Paralympic Spanish basketball team faked its way to a gold medal by pretending that 10 of its 12 members had an intellectual disability
m1Ley TIL that Booth No. 17, located at New York City's Grand Central Terminal, was once the most used pay phone, if not the most used phone in general, in the world
eQZE TIL the Australian Mk 3 Centurion 169041 was nicknamed “The Atomic Tank” due to it surviving a 9.1kt blast from 460m away. The tank was simply driven off after the test and went on to spend another 23 years in service, including time in the Vietnam war.
j7RQ TIL that in 2013 a Chinese woman went on trial for murder after she squeezed a shopkeepers testicles so hard that he died.
wLP4J TIL Chicago mobster Sam DeStefano loaned money at interest rates of 25% by week to very high-risk debtors such as drug addicts, in order to torture them in his cellar when they defaulted