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TIL that there was a nearly identical case to the Ferguson case involving a white unarmed kid and a black cop around three months ago

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ep7RE TIL that the ship's bell of the SS Terra Nova of Robert Falcon Scott's last polar expedition is rung everyday at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge when everyone in the institute is invited for coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon, as is British Tradition.
VG6Q TIL that Mark Hamill is the same age today (63) as Sir Alec Guiness was when Star Wars was released in 1977.
ZpDeQ TIL that Venus flytraps are native to North Carolina
l7DVV TIL In 2019, David Dobrik (22) got married to Jason Nash's mother, Lorraine Nash (75). if I understood correctly, it was in order to make her alligable for getting an american citizenship, cause' she didn't have one previously? They stayed married for about a month, after which they divorced.
epRoD TIL the longest poem in the world is the Hindu Mahābhārata. It's more than 5 times the length of the Bible, the Iliad, and the Odyssey combined! It has 220000 verses and about 1.8 million words.