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TIL olympic sailor Francisco Gonzalez killed 44 people on a plane by shooting both the pilots

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Ov7Y TIL no 1 Modern Warfare 3 champion of the world was billionaire Kim Dotcom and not until his US arrest in NZ for owning Megaupload.com did he fall to no 2
jNVJE TIL There was a fake US embassy discovered and shut down in Ghana in 2016. I guess also, TIL that there is such things as fake US Embassies.
loDE1 TIL Nikola Tesla was only 35 years old when he patented the Tesla Coil and became an American citizen the same year.
wog6M TIL Sharks are Older than Trees. The first organisms we’d recognize as trees (the extinct genus Archaeopteris) didn’t appear until roughly 350 million years ago, at least 50–100 million years after sharks were already cruising the oceans.
yQJxe TIL: Many dentists acknowledge that for adults with good oral hygiene practices, seeing the dentist twice a year is probably more often than is really necessary. Once every 12-16 months is perfectly sufficient for many people.