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TIL: This little blue berry is the shiniest living organism on Earth

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Ypmv TIL that when Charles Whitman began his shooting rampage at U Texas in 1966, a lot of locals grabbed their rifles and started shooting back. They kept him pinned down until the police could sneak up the tower and kill him.
D10Me TIL that when the chief model maker for Thomas the Tank Engine left his rock band in 1970, he was replaced by Freddie Mercury and his former band became Queen
W1go TIL that only 1/3 of the people in America really supported the American Revolution in 1776
NXPXM TIL about Whittaker Chambers, a Soviet spy with a limited knowledge of Austrian German who is responsible for the popularization and an inaccurate English translation of Bambi.
R5LAa TIL Because tungsten and gold have almost identical weights, fake gold bars and coins made from tungsten cannot be identified by the usual method of density testing, and ultrasound has to be used instead.