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TIL that former NFL player James Brooks was found to be illiterate when he couldn't read court documents. He admitted to not paying over $100k in child support. When the judge asked how he graduated from Auburn without being able to read, he said, " I didn't have to go to class. "

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neGYr TIL In 1895 there were only two cars in the entire state of Ohio, yet they ended up crashing.
VrWZ TIL a Catholic priest was strangled and stomped to death while serving a prison sentence for sexually molesting over 130 children in the Boston area.
JYed8 TIL that one of the people convicted during the (thoroughly debunked) Satanic Panic of the 80s, which accused daycare workers of abusing children for Satanic purposes, is still in prison
DPov TIL in 1970, there were roughly half as many people in the world as there are now.
MeDeK TIL: In 1911, Canadian prospector William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting rabbits when they stumbled upon a quartz outcrop that eventually yielded 13.5 million ounces of gold.