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TIL a couple got rick rolled when getting married

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VBQb8 TIL that Dr Amy Bishop shot and killed three professors in a University of Alabama biology department meeting in 2010. It was found out later that she had shot and killed her brother in 1986 and was never charged.
694xQ TIL Ben Folds leaked his own album, but with a mix of real singles and fake songs. The band wrote and recorded six joke tracks in just one day, bundled them with genuine singles, and leaked the "album" online.
Y7Pyd TIL that there is a form of moonshine popular in the slums of Nairobi called chang'aa which is intentionally cut with chemicals like embalming fluid and jet fuel to make it more potent. Chang'aa literally means "kill me quick."
kJGeg [TIL] The concept of zero as a number was first developed in India, and its use spread to the Islamic world and then to Europe.
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