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TIL the Unabomer, Ted Kaczynski, randomly chose his victims from library research.

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kOdJd TIL Food deserts are places where residents don’t have access to affordable nutritious foods like fruits and vegetables. Instead these areas often have convenience stores and gas stations with limited shelf space available for healthy options - making nutritious foods virtually inaccessible.
Wk9JN TIL that after beating an unarmed Charles Sumner on the Senate floor with a cane, Preston Brooks challenged Massachusetts Representative Anson Burlingame to a duel. Burlingame, who was a well-known marksman, immediately accepted and choose rifles as the weapon. Brooks neglected to show up.
JKvB TIL: St Augustine, who lived in the 4th century, advocated that god should have made use of natural, evolutionary, original causes in the production of man’s body. He believed it was the soul that was created through a supernatural process, the body was created through a natural evolutionary process
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