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TIL that there have been 31 recorded school shootings in the US so far this year. In comparison, there have been 24 recorded school shootings in the entire continent of Europe’s history.

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M0d8 TIL Liv Tyler has two rock star dads. Until she was 8, she was told that her adoptive father, rock legend, Todd Rundgren, was also her biological dad. After learning she was the daughter of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, she changed her last name and kept Rundgren as her middle name.
8e79G TIL Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the few major European cities with a Catholic Church, synagogue, mosque and Eastern Orthodox church in the same neighborhood
d8Rx7 TIL that looking at a solar eclipse is not inherently more dangerous than looking at the sun at any other point in time. But outside of an eclipse, people don’t normally stare at the sun for an extended period of time.
b9nWN TIL Golfers in Japan have to take out 'hole in one' insurance, as they are obligated to throw an extravagant party and provide gifts to their friends if they make the lucky shot.
M74mW TIL An Australian hacker was jailed for causing millions of litres of raw sewage into parks and rivers