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TIL America’s deadliest school violence was not Columbine, but Bath, Mich., in 1927 - CSMonitor.com

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a88AM TIL that in Japan, if a train is late, you will receive a ticket saying as such that you can then give to your employer/teacher to prove that your tardiness wasn't your fault.
l7d15 TIL The Classic Interstellar Black Hole doesn't look like this because there's multiple rings - it's 1 horizontal ring that is "lensed" to look like a separate vertical halo.
KOvJa TIL that bones too get bigger with exercise, not just muscle
LxG9 TIL there is a Captain Underpants movie to be released in 2017 starring Kevin Hart, Ed Helms and Jordan Peele.
R54P4 TIL in 2010, the executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission ate nothing but potatoes for two months. He lost 21 pounds, his cholesterol went down 67 points, his blood sugar lowered and the blood chemistry—the iron, the calcium, the protein—either stayed the same or got better.