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TIL Marc Rebillet sold his his spot in line to buy an iPhone for $800 back to a lady who wanted to buy all the iPhone in the store. This was in the 2000's.

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m1YRv TIL about Straub v. BMT by Todd, an Indiana case that said that a parent can't bargain away child support even with a written pre-conception agreement. Justice DeBruler dissented, arguing that a promise by one parent to pay the other parent's child support share should be as binding as insurance.
ADA1x TIL that Paris, France, was the first western capital to have a black mayor (1879)
0dm1L TIL The black tip at the end of a cutter knife is used to snap-off a dull blade tip
r7xW TIL when Team Canada’s Olympic gold medal-winning goalie Shannon Szabados was invited to take practice with the perennial last-place Edmonton Oilers in the spring of 2014, someone asked her if she was worried about getting hit on by the players. Her response: “Nope, they can’t score anyways.”
p88yO TIL that those of us who can throw our vision into and out of focus at will are actually contracting and relaxing tiny 'ciliary bodies' inside our eyes which distort the shape of the eye's lenses