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TIL that when asked why she had shot 11 people at her school, the shooter, 16-year old Brenda Ann Spencer, replied, “I don’t like Mondays.”

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gLWb TIL Around 1/3 of American teenagers have texted full nudes of themselves and could potentially be charged with the creation and distribution of child pornography.
8aedP TIL of Tama (たま, April 29, 1999 – June 22, 2015), a female calico cat who gained fame for being a station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
ANYK4 TIL The United States and the Cherokee Nation signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 which promised the Cherokee people a delegate to the House of Representatives
nP7o TIL that at the behest of the military, the FDA did a study determining that most drugs are still safe and effective many years past the expiration date stamped on the package.
4k0m6 TIL Tibetan monks practice chöd, a ritual involving meditation in haunted places and visualizing offering their own bodies to spirits as a feast. They spend nights in graveyards, aiming to dissolve ego, confront mortality, and transcend fear, achieving compassion and detachment by embracing death.