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TIL An Internet troll was jailed after mocking deaths of teenagers. Sean Duffy targeted Facebook tribute pages and posted videos on YouTube taunting the dead victims and their families. The court heard that Duffy has Asperger’s syndrome and lived a “miserable existence” drinking alcohol alone.

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R8Ra TIL in 1997, the pilot of an A-10 attack jet turned off his radio and transponder for no apparent reason and flew hundreds of miles off course during a training mission, later crashing into a mountainside in Colorado. No explanation for the pilot’s actions was ever found.
JGwv TIL There are 923 words in the English language that break the “I before E” rule. Only 44 words actually follow that rule.
Ooe6 TIL that Robert A. Heinlein developed the concept for the waterbed.
M7Y77 TIL Two chemical elements were discovered on a star before they were discovered on the earth. Helium was discovered on the sun and technetium was discovered in certain cool stars
BrYjW TIL turtles that wander on to roads occasionally get launched into traffic after being struck by a vehicle and are able to survive the impact of being sent through a windshield.