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TIL Mob boss John Gotti’s youngest son was hit by a neighbors car while riding a mini bike, and killed. Not long after the accident the neighbor went missing and has never been found

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VBdjB TIL that the longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters! Today I learned that the longest word in the English language is the chemical name for "Titin," the largest known protein found in the human body. This word has 189,819 letters and would take about 3.5 hours to read aloud!
NXp8 TIL: As a Jew, you can live the most evil life imaginable and have to spend AT MOST 12 months in hell
QByd TIL that in the late 1700s, a king of India developed rocket artillery that fired swords in order to fight the British.
wLyD6 TIL Europeans brought deadly viruses and bacteria, such as smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera, for which Native Americans had no immunity