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TIL that the city of Dallas, Texas has lost every single one of 82 court cases against the same man, Robert Groden, over several decades.

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R7a96 TIL Renowned Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan is sceptical of the mental-health establishment and pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of incorrectly classifying millions as mentally ill out of self-interest and greed
lZL5 TIL Georgy Zhukov, Marshall of the Soviet Union, loved Coca-Cola but didn’t want to be seen drinking a symbol of American imperialism. Through Harry S. Truman, he had a chemist make a colorless version that looked like vodka.
wojJP TIL the first presidential debate in the United States was held in 1960, and debates between US presidential candidates were not held regularly until 1976
vVRj TIL That Norway will allow any student from anywhere in the world to study at their Public Universities completely free of charge.
G5W1 TIL if Bill Gates dropped a $100 bill on the ground, he’d earn more in interest in the 1 second it took him to pick it up than the actual act of picking it up and putting it in his wallet.