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TIL a South Carolina high school student was arrested and suspended, and had his locker searched because of a creative writing assignment where he mentioned buying a gun to shoot his neighbor’s pet dinosaur.

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XGQP TIL in 1962 news channel NBC paid a West Berlin team 50,000DM ($150,000 today) to dig under the Berlin Wall, on the condition that NBC could film the escape. 29 East Germans managed to escape, and the resulting NBC film, The Tunnel, won 3 Emmies.
p8EEO TIL There are generally two definitions of "literally": one which is to take something in a literal sense or manner, the second which is to take things figuratively. It's been defined this way for hundreds of years.
l78NK TIL about the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster that practices Pastafarianism. Said monster created the universe while drunk. It's version of Heaven includes a beer volcano and a stripper factory.
RGaa TIL that the first and last British casualties of WWI aren’t just buried in the same cemetery, they’re buried facing each other.
nlo Today I learned Stevies dad from “Malcolm in the Middle” voices Uncle Ruckus on “The Boondocks”