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TIL You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

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wL1VJ TIL that when a new IKEA was built in Valladolid, Spain, in 2011, the company held an online poll on how to name the road leading to the store. The majority voted for: "Calle Me falta un tornillo" ("I'm missing a screw Road"), and IKEA and the municipal administration named the road accordingly.
0gxj TIL: In the ‘30s the Smithsonian recorded Confederate Civil War veterans reenacting the the rebel yell battle cry. This is the only recording of actual veterans doing the yell.
YDBW TIL the 5th Amendment protects someone from revealing the source of their illegal income, but not the amount.
NGGQ TIL that the guy in the cowboy hat saving lives at the Boston Marathon bombings today tried to kill himself in 2004 after hearing that his son was killed in Iraq.
6Ed08 TIL that some Native Americans tribes were major slave holders.