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TIL that Sixth-grader has won $70,000 settlement after school demanded her Facebook password

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KkG6 TIL, In 2012, monkeys beat hedgefund managers by 300% in investment returns.
LJAr TIL that in October 1994, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, The Lion King and Jurassic Park were all in theaters at the same time.
lWdA TIL the German government declines to consider Scientology as a religion.
wBn8 TIL Stranger Things was rejected by 15 to 20 different networks before Netflix picked it up
XEmLr TIL when Professor Robert Goddard proposed using rockets to send men to the moon the New York Times ran a scathing editorial questioning his credentials, his chair at Clark College and intelligence. In response to Apollo 11 they printed one of the most famous retractions in history.