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TIL that in 2014, Dallas Police engaged in a six-hour standoff with an empty apartment

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W7wxL TIL about the berserker hypothesis, a proposed solution to the Fermi paradox stating the reason why we haven't found other sentient species yet is because those species have been wiped out by self-replicating "berserker" probes.
nZ7 TIL Lt. Worf was originally supposed to be a very minor character.
edm5 TIL thousands of afghans share January 1st as their birthday because they don’t know when their real birthday is.
kyMd TIL John Harrison - the only person to be both the child (William Henry Harrison) and the parent (Benjamin Harrison) of U.S. Presidents.
MeKEb TIL that the FBI investigated the movie "It's a Wonderful Life", when it was being made and eventually released, for being communist propaganda