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TIL that the Edmond post office shooting inspired the term Going Postal, and is the single most deadly act of workplace violence in US history.

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dDAP8 TIL that the goofy "baby talk" most adults naturally use to talk to babies actually helps them develop language better than speaking them normally.
8eQ5Z TIL in 2017, MMA icon Matt Hughes was a hit by a train, putting him in a 19 day coma and leaving him with a significant TBI
w4Y6 TIL Ferrero uses a quarter of the worlds hazelnuts making Nutella.
EJp7 TIL the “bye! have a beautiful time!” guy at the end of American Dad is Security Officer Peña, a Venezuelan-American who worked at the office buildings where Family Guy and American Dad! are produced.
R7Ok4 TIL that when Kanye was 20, at his first ever record meeting with Columbia records and producer Michael Mauldin, he told the execs that he’d be bigger than Michael Jackson and Jermaine Dupri, not knowing Mauldin was Dupri’s father. Kanye’s offer was nullified and he was asked to leave the offices.