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p01p TIL A medical receptionist mistook the line “shooting some b-ball outside of the school” for “shooting people outside of the school” on a teen patient’s voicemail message, prompting county-wide school lockdowns.
b9Roj TIL that the taxonomic name for the endangered western lowland gorilla is Gorilla gorilla gorilla
p8LmQ TIL that when Buddy Holly married Maria Elena Santiago in 1958, less than 2 months after their first date, his manager advised him to keep it secret to avoid upsetting his many female fans.
ne7Z7 After you die, some things in your body keep on ticking. Genes active after death may be important for transplant success and calculating time of death.
xxlD TIL a cat named Orlando beat a group of professional money managers, and a group of finance students from a British school in a stock investment challenge