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TIL the DC Snipers planned to kill 6 white people a day for 30 days at predetermined destinations, but plans were hindered by traffic.

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6KaY TIL according to a lawsuit filed against medical clinics and physicians who performed his colonoscopy, a man claims he had left his phone on ‘record’ and caught staff mocking him the second he went under, making fun of his penis, threatening to fire a gun up his rectum, and more
VBRlG TIL that the animation film Stand by Me Doraemon helped ease diplomatic tensions between China and Japan.
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