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TIL in 1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, two heads of the Black Panther Party, were killed in their sleep by Chicago Police. It was described as a gunfight, but 99% of bullets were found to have been shot from the police, & fake bullet holes from the inside were found to have been planted by police

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N7Pke TIL: in 2017, a frat party in a Maryland house tested positive on a breathalyzer because there was so much alcohol in the air.
KYKB TIL vikings used to give kittens to new brides as an essential part of a new household. Also, cats were considered appropiate since they were associated with Freyja, the goddess of love.
ANMA7 TIL that planet Vulcan was a small hypothetical planet proposed in 1859 to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun, this hypothesis has been disproven in 1915 by Einstein's theory of relativity
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