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TIL that Robert Stack of Unsolved Mysteries fame was a world record holding skeet shooter. Here he is talking about it at the Olympics with Arthur Ashe

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E1BDw TIL The construction of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe was put on hold for a while after they realized that the graffiti-resistant coating was being sourced from the same company the Nazis bought their Zyklon B from
VK1Q TIL that a woman struck and killed a teenage boy while driving her SUV, then sued the dead boy and his family because the event caused her “emotional distress”.
b5k7 TIL for $22,000 Swiss company Algordanza will take your ashes and compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one. Most stones come out blue because humans contains trace amounts of boron. Occasionally diamond pops out white, yellow or black.
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