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TIL that the Columbine shooters were neither bullied nor unpopular at school.

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69Bp7 TIL John B Goodenough is widely credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery
yVWdJ TIL the statue of liberty's copper sheeting is only 3/32 of an inch thick about two pennies together.
Z8Anp TIL of Jack Van Der Geest- a Dutch resistance fighter who was one of eight people to escape from Buchenwald. Pretending to be dead, at 80 lbs. he hid in a pile of bodies for 11 hours before killing a Nazi, stealing his uniform and a motorcycle to escape.
nDDB TIL that in 1946 Kodak customers complained about film developing cloudy. Kodak investigated & found the corn husks used for packing was radioactive. They discovered something that was not public knowledge; the packaging was exposed to fallout from the world’s first nuclear bomb explosion.
x618w TIL: in 1964 the U.S. ceded land to Mexico. A boundary dispute caused by the changing course of the Rio Grande near El Paso was resolved by the Chamizal Treaty which ceded land north of the river to Mexico and some Mexican land to the U.S. They agreed to rechannel the river so it won't happen again.