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TIL that a local bully who constantly evaded the law despite his numerous horrible crimes was shot dead in front of 40+ townsfolk. They all protected the shooter & claimed they saw nothing. Even today, nobody has been charged with the crime.

GAyrj TIL the IAA mysteriously requested that Yaron Rosenthal bury the discovery of some proto-Aeolic columns, saying, “Yaron, please, you found it, but we know about it. Now forget the whole thing and keep your mouth shut.”
xV6aB TIL when a law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against Taco Bell claiming the chain's seasoned beef filling isn’t beefy enough to be called beef by USDA standards, the chain spent $3-$4million to defend its beef filling as ‘high quality’ & insisted that the product is actually 88% beef.
vPQK TIL there is a 31 year old, unsolved, brutal quadruple murder. Men, women and children were murdered and kidnapped. But 3 young boys were found, uninjured, in the bedroom the next morning. Authorities don’t know who did it, or why.
xVbQg TIL Carlos Hathcock, an American sniper during the Vietnam war crawled over 1,500 yards to shoot PAVN General. It took him 4 days and 3 nights inch by inch. He fired a single shot killing the General and crawled back undetected.
ayLo TIL People with poor mathematical skills aren’t necessarily bad at math because they are ‘ungifted’. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety’ that makes people perform worse, which sometimes leads to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more Math anxiety.