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TIL a woman filed a lawsuit on an insurance firm after claiming she contracted an STI as a result of having sex in her boyfriend's car (which is insured by the firm). She won and was awarded $5,200,000

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78Prb TIL that the once-ubiquitous "Mmm... Toasty!" Quiznos sandwich chain, which had 4700 locations in 2007, closed over 90% of their stores in the space of the following decade. It was the largest and fastest collapse in industry history.
jllN TIL Charles Darwin was accepted on H.M.S. Beagle because he agreed to search for Noah’s ark and find evidence of the great flood mentioned in the Bible
gOWL TIL that the US has had 75 school shootings since the Columbine Massacre in 1999. The rest of the world has only had 30 combined
MKQK TIL William the Conqueror’s funeral had to be rushed because of the foul smell of his bowels, which had burst when his too-large body was forced into his too-small tomb.
OvJg TIL of the Kalash people, a white-skinned, blue-eyed tribe in the back country of Pakistan, who claim to be descendants of the ancient Greeks.