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TIL about Andrew Kehoe, who was a Michigan farmer who became disgruntled after losing reelection as treasurer of the Bath Township school board. He subsequently murdered his wife and then detonated bombs at the school on May 18, 1927. 38 children and 6 adults were killed.

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