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TIL about Naomi Ishakawa Foote, who at 14 years old intentionally shot her classmate, Jason Hood, in 1991 after he harassed her. The next year she was interviewed by Oprah.

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9YoJm TIL about "exploding caskets" being a problem in mausoleums. The process of decay builds up gasses that can cause a literal explosion and knock down the marble front of a crypt.
X6Rr TIL that the developers of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed hoped that George Lucas would give Vader’s apprentice a Darth moniker. Lucas agreed and offered up two Darth titles to choose from; ‘Darth Icky’ and ‘Darth Insanius.’ People waited for George to say ‘just kidding,’ but it never came.
Rnbw TIL an American college student disappeared during spring break in Mexico, only to have his body found in a drug running cult’s ranch with his brain in a cauldron.
OjMe TIL Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling originally recorded the show’s intro by saying there was a sixth dimension. When a confused producer asked why he skipped a dimension, he responded with, “Oh. Aren’t there five?”
pY5kA TIL that there are multiple species of cotton. The most common species today came from Central America, Mexico, and the Carribean, with the other three commercially grown species from are from South America; South Asia; and Africa and Arabia. There are even Australian species of wild cotton.