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TIL roughhousing with your kids is good for them.
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TIL Jenny doesn’t die from AIDS in Forrest Gump (1994) as commonly believed. The author of the book made it clear that Jenny dies of Hepatitis C.
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TIL that In 1816, after the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, Earth experienced the “Year Without a Summer.” Global temperatures dropped, leading to food shortages, crop failures, and extreme weather events
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TIL that when William Langer, Governor of North Dakota, was convicted of a felony and ordered to be removed from office, he chose instead to declare North Dakota independent, declare martial law, and barricade himself within the Governor's mansion. Two years later, he was re-elected.
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TIL the first student protest in the United States happened at Harvard in 1766 when a student yelled out “Behold, our butter stinketh!— give us therefore, butter that stinketh not.” This sparked The Great Butter Rebellion.
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TIL Yang (Lenovo’s CEO) received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits, which he in-turn redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo’s employees. He did same thing again in 2013.