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TIL that former NFL coach Jimmy Johnson attended high school with singer Janis Joplin in Texas. There, he and other jocks at the school relentlessly bullied Janis by groping her and spreading rumors around school that she’d slept with their friends because she "looked and acted weird."

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ZoEo TIL Billy Joel received his high school diploma at age 43. In 1967 he was playing at a piano bar to help his mother make ends meet which interfered with his attendance, causing him to miss a crucial English exam. Decades later he completed the work.
M1J8 TIL Johnny Depp thought he was gonna get fired and replaced by Tom Hanks at the beginning of filming Edward Scissorhands because two girls knocked at his door and asked if Tom Hanks lived there
oJ1R TIL Louis Braille, inventor of the system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired, created the raised-dot system by using an awl, the same kind of implement which had blinded him at the age of three.
Ww4L TIL that when Jackie Gleason needed $200 for a train ticket to New York (he was afraid of flying), he went to a local storekeeper and asked for a loan. When the shopkeeper asked for ID, Gleason took him to a movie theater to watch a movie he was in. Gleason got the loan, and paid it back promptly.
Xd48 TIL that in 2005 a Boeing engineer known as Mr. Hands died after receiving anal from a horse and subsequently rupturing his colon back before bestiality was a felony in Washington state