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

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0w6Nj TIL about Lou Pearlman, a music producer and con man who managed both the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, defrauding both bands out of millions. He went on to run one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history, leaving more than $300 million in debts to investors
kOQaB TIL that in 1901 Dorland’s Medical Dictionary defined heterosexuality as an “abnormal or perverted appetite toward the opposite sex.” More than two decades later, in 1923, Merriam Webster’s dictionary similarly defined it as “morbid sexual passion for one of the opposite sex.”
R7dv1 TIL of 'Friendship Albums', a tradition among African-American women in the early 1800s from the middle/upper class. Empty books were passed around their circle and filled with philosophical, political or creative writing and art. Extremely rare antiques, only 5 such albums are known to exist today.
kP5g TIL : Pink Floyd played a concert in 1971 in which the music was so loud that it killed fish in a nearby pond.
6EMNJ TIL on average Mercury, not Mars or Venus, is the closest planet to Earth