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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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1ZKd TIL that an experiment called the “Monster Study” was conducted on 22 orphans in Iowa. In it, half of the kids consistently were teased for stuttering and developed speech problems even when they were normal before the experiment.
yQQnX TIL- we are all running Minix and we don't even know it
grrVD TIL about the "Ancient Spanish Monastery" in Miami, a monastery built in 1141 AD in Europe, imported piece-by-piece into the U.S. in 1925 by media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, making it the oldest European building in the Western Hemisphere.
8e7da TIL The middle finger is the penis and the curled fingers on either side are the testicles. By doing it, you are offering someone a phallic gesture. It is saying, 'this is a phallus' that you're offering to people, which is a very primeval display."
PYbRg TIL in 2014 the beard of the Golden Mask of Tutankhamun fell off as it was cleaned by Museum employees, trying to cover up their mistake they tried to glue it back on with quick-dry plastic glue, leaving it off-center. This was later noticed and the employees got charged with "reckless destruction".