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TIL that there is an extinct species of shark that had teeth resembling a buzz saw

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PLxO TIL that the Boston Marathon (2013), Virginia Tech Shootings (2007), Columbine Shootings (1999), Oklahoma City bombing (1995), and the Branch Davidian siege (1993) have all occurred in the same week of April.
LkwKd TIL Clint Eastwood was mayor of tiny Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA in the 1980s; he ran because he wanted to lift a ban on public ice cream sales, flew home from movie sets for weekly council meetings, wrote a column in the town paper, and a local hotel changed their slogan to "make my stay".
x6VOw TIL there's a 3,200 year old Egyptian tablet with excuses of people who missed work
wLm7M TIL- After US President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke in October of 1919, his second wife, Edith, de facto ran the Executive Branch of the government for the remainder of his second term.
A4R4 TIL that of the of the 139 members elected to the 1934 USSR Central Committee of the Communist Party at the 17th Congress, Stalin had 98 executed. Of 1,996 party members present, 1,108 were arrested, and about two thirds of those executed. Thus it was given the name “The Congress of the Condemned”.