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TIL there are only two U.S. mass school shooters from the past century who are alive and not incarcerated. That's because they were 11 and 13 at the time of the crime.

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VMwLB TIL that the giant Sequoia trees that grow famously in California are also flourishing in GERMANY!
p8RY4 TIL a Scottish man fasted for 382 days, living on vitamin supplements and non-caloric beverages. He was morbidly obese, weighing 456 pounds, and lost 276 pounds. The fast was monitored by doctors, who detected no ill-effects. He never regained the weight. It was the longest recorded fast in history.
Br1ar TIL inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller tried to document his life as completely as possible. Every 15 minutes from 1915 to his death in 1983 he recorded his life in his diary named ‘Dymaxion Chronofile’. Ultimately, it contains 14,000 papers and is a staggering 82 metres high.
LQb5v TIL that Michigan and Ohio went to war in the 1830s over… Toledo.
Z88n4 Short answer: It's an adorable means of self-protection.