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TiL: During the Columbine shooting SWAT teams remained outside of the school while Klebold and Harris roamed the halls murdering students, they didn't enter until 3 hours after the two took their own lives.

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KY6wJ TIL historical linguist Max Müller had several theories about the origins of language. These include the Bow wow, Pooh pooh, Ding Dong, and Yo he ho theories.
0w1xj TIL that in response to a literal overflow of corpses in Parisian cemeteries in 1780, it took the city 12 years to move between 6 and 7 million bodies to its former underground mine quarries which became the city’s catacombs.
9wKdD TIL that Spain currently has a lower fertility rate than Japan
7rpGO TIL that the term Peanut Gallery came from Vaudeville days when the audience in cheapest and rowdiest seats in the theater often ate peanuts and sometimes threw them at the performers.
rR1mw TIL governments banned the Incandescent Lightbulb for not being efficient enough, but MIT researchers developed an incandescent bulb more efficient than LED bulbs.