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TIL Pinball was illegal in Oakland until 2014.

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GYxm7 TIL The Scopes "Monkey" Trial was staged to raise publicity for the town of Dayton, Tennessee. Scopes himself wasn't even sure if he had ever taught evolution before, but agreed to be a defendant and asked his students to testify against him.
XZ5P TIL that Lina Medina, the world’s youngest mother who gave birth at the age of five in 1939 had started menstruating at three, developed breasts at four and broader hips by five. The biological father was never found and she is still alive today.
bxWj TIL that in Game of Thrones, when Daenerys arrives at Meereen, a champion sent to insult her is actually saying a French taunt from Monthy Python and the Holy Grail in Valyrian
VMElm TIL in 1922, scientists went to a hospital ward with comatose children, dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. They went from bed to bed injecting the kids with a new extract, insulin. As they injected the last comatose child, the first one injected began to awaken.
eKbb TIL that Buddhist monks distributed over 8 million sunflowers seeds to be planted on the hillside near Fukushima to absorb radioactive ingredients in the soil and water after the nuclear disaster.