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TIL the father of Stephen Paddock, the deadliest mass shooter in US history, was a bank robber who was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list from 1969 to 1977.

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Qaa6 TIL that the Second Congo War was the deadliest war since WWII with 5.4 million deaths.
9kD TIL: In the three days after the Colorado theatre shooting, the number of people applying for background checks to purchase firearms in Colorado rose 43.5%
mmKY TIL No one knows where the word “dog” originally came from. Appearing without cognates in Old English, it displaced the more common “hound” within 400 years and went on to find its way into 7 other European languages.
xQJg TIL in 2013, Melbourne, Australia assigned it’s trees individual email address with the idea that if citizens had any concerns they could make reports. The plan backfired due to people sending love letters to their favorite trees.
bV84 TIL that in 1976 the mayor of Montreal declared before the Olympic games that “The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.” He was wrong. Mismanagement and gross cost overruns left the city with $1.5 billion of debt that wasn’t paid off until 2006.