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TIL: The removal of lead from gasoline correlated to a 56% drop in violent crime in the US and South Africa

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LkJ5Z TIL before his murder spree that resulted in the deaths of 16 people, Charles Whitman left a note requesting an autopsy to see if there was a biological explanation for his actions, and increasingly intense headaches. The autopsy performed found that he a "pecan-sized," brain tumor.
nemNP TIL Emmett Till a 14-year-old African-American was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store.
4XkB5 TIL Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer back in the early 1800s
XEBQE TIL that there is a pineapple on top of the Wimbledon trophy likely because it used to be a symbol of prestige at the time when the trophy was designed
GYAa4 TIL EA offered Benjamin Burnley, vocalist of Breaking Benjamin money to praise Star Wars: Battlefront 1 on social media during it's first release. He said he'd try it, and give his honest opinion. He ended up hating it so much that he broke the disk and refused to take their money.