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TIL that Dr Amy Bishop shot and killed three professors in a University of Alabama biology department meeting in 2010. It was found out later that she had shot and killed her brother in 1986 and was never charged.

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X0pO6 TIL about Skeeter syndrome, a severe allergic reaction to mosquito (skeeter) bites
9YVX6 TIL Octopuses live only 3-5 years, so they have limited time for accumulating information. Some researchers say that if octopuses had lived more, they, and not humans, would have been the dominant intelligence on Earth.
yQpv8 TIL of Operation Monopoly, which was a covert plan by the FBI to build a secret tunnel underneath the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. to gather secret intelligence. It was largely a technical failure and was compromised by FBI double agent Robert Hanssen to the Soviets.
eRyJ TIL There are two mystery safes in Jersey City, NJ City Hall that are going to be cracked this Tuesday at noon. Nobody knows why they were secretly installed over 60 years ago.
JYVYv TIL the word cheesecake has sexual connotations and was used in the 1660s to describe promiscuous women