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TIL President Garfield’s assassin purchased the gun he thought would look the best in a museum.

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KOWrQ TIL that not only do the people of Münich, Germany, eat second breakfast every day, the second breakfast must be accompanied by beer
QNZAL TIL about skatole, an organic compound that occurs naturally in the feces of mammals and birds and is the primary contributor to fecal odor. In low concentrations, it has a flowery smell and is found in orange blossoms and jasmine. It has also been identified in certain cannabis varieties
eD5L TIL that between 1836 and 1914, over 30 million Europeans migrated to the United States. One in seven failed to survive the transatlantic crossing.
J115k TIL that a German Cinema offered free tickets to the premiere of Schindler's List to members of the right-wing AfD party in Germany
LZVV TIL as soon as 2100 Humanity could begin to suffocate due to an average 6 degree Celsius increase in temperature disrupting the process of photosynthesis in two thirds of the world’s oxygen producing organisms.