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TIL the families of the columbine shooters have paid out millions in settlements to the victims and their families.

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L1bQ TIL that St. Augustine of Hippo, a Father of the Church, wrote a prayer as a teenager. It went, “Lord, grant me chastity and continence, but not yet”.
oZLL TIL that the Boo character in the Mario series is based on assistant director Takashi Tezuka’s sometimes ill-tempered wife; “it shrinks when Mario looks at it, but when Mario turns away, it will grow large and menacing”
78egx TIL from 1887 to 1950, meteorologists in the US were forbidden from using the word “tornado” in their forecasts. Experts at the time thought doing so would create mass panic.
9YOnr TIL that the actor who played French WW2 POW Cpl LeBeau in 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” is a French Jew who survived imprisonment in the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp
BgQPL TIL that the East Los Angeles Interchange, located in Boyle Heights, California, is the busiest freeway interchange in the world. Handling over 550,000 cars a day.