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TIL the director and animator of Ed, Edd, and Eddie was shot 8 times by police officers while unarmed. It was caught on video.

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WkxLA TIL Mark Zuckerberg attempted to buy Snapchat for 3 billion dollars in November of 2013 but was rejected. Almost 3 years later, Instagram cloned Snapchat’s main features and launched ‘Instagram Stories’.
rvrM TIL CIA Operation Mongoose tried to kill Castro with exploding cigars, shells to poisoned wetsuits, milkshakes, a former lover; character assassination via thallium to make his beard fall out and LSD. Castro: “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”
rL0w TIL after MH-17 was shot down over Ukraine, the Russian government accused a Ukrainian fighter jet. After it was exposed that this type of jet couldn’t reach the required altitude, Wikipedia said there were a flurry of attempts from Russia to edit the jet’s page to say it could fly higher.
bwkQ TIL Mitchel Johnson and Andrew Golden spent less than a decade in prison after murdering four students and a teacher. Despite both men seeking out guns soon after being released, their current whereabouts and identities are unknown.
Y7MYx TIL around 20% of sperm are abnormal and may possess two heads, no heads, or two tails. Known as "kamikaze sperm", they are theorized to attack and kill the sperm of rival males with enzymes and block them from reaching the egg.