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TIL a DEA agent accidentally shot himself in the leg while giving a lecture on gun safety and claiming that “I’m the only one in this room professional enough to handle this glock 40”

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p8rlQ TIL about Kushim, the earliest known example of a named person in human history. He lived some 5,000 years ago and evidence suggests that he was an accountant.
LkOod TIL a possible origin of the name Cerberus (the multi-headed dog of the Greek god Hades) is the Proto-Indo-European word k̑érberos, meaning "spotted". Hades' dog might have literally been named "Spot".
rR074 TIL of the Strauss–Howe generational theory. According to this theory, every 80 years is a crucial “fourth turning” of generations in American history. The “fourth turning” is necessarily marked by a crisis that has destroyed the social order and created a new one, after which a new cycle commences.
b9vYN TIL in the 1970’s a man in his mid-30’s committed suicide by jumping off the Gold Gate Bridge. The suicide note that he left behind in his apartment wrote “I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.”
oBvA8 TIL Nutella uses about 25% of the world's hazelnuts