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TIL Atlanta police fired 39 shots at a 92-year-old woman during a raid of her home. She was killed by 5 or 6 of the shots. It was later discovered that they planted drugs in her home, and the evidence that led to the raid was falsified.

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65wZ TIL the Qibya massacre, occurred in October 1953 when Israeli troops under Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank. Sixty-nine Palestinian Arabs, two-thirds of them women and children, were killed. Forty-five houses, a school, and a mosque were destroyed.
YB1P TIL in 2005 the Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, insulted Finnish cuisine. Later, in 2008, a Finnish pizza won an international pizza contest coming first before Italy in second and Australia in third. The name of the first place pizza was “Pizza Berlusconi”.
KxGQ Today I Learned that Jordan Chandler sternly denied the allegations that Michael Jackson abused him until after he was administered sodium amytal [a drug known to enable false memories to be implanted] by his dentist father who had first made the allegations before his son did.
OGOQR TIL that human follicle mites, commonly found in cheek and eyelash follicles, have been used to study ancient human migrations through examination of their genetic lineages.
4k1lJ TIL in the 1970’s, a shipment company was denied a loan needed to keep the company afloat so the owner took their last $5,000 to Vegas. Playing Blackjack, Fred Smith ended up with $25,000, which was enough to cover the fuel bill and keep FedEx going for another week.