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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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Y7XGr TIL in 1974 Whitey Bulger and an accomplice set fire to an elementary school to intimidate a judge that mandated a plan to desegregate schools in Boston by busing. A year later he threw a Molotov cocktail into JFK's birthplace in retaliation of Sen. Ted Kennedy supporting Boston school desegregating
eVd6 TIL a pilot landed a F-15 with only one wing left.
7G9M TIL Harvard researchers were able to store 700 terabytes of data on a single gram of DNA.
XE7Ek TIL that 'Big Ben' is not the name of the actual tower, called the 'Elizabeth Tower', but the name of the 16 ton bell inside.
rRrbw TIL a.m/p.m came from the Latin words ante meridiem (a.m.) meaning "before noon" and post meridiem (p.m.) meaning "after noon".