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TIL that Colombian footballer Andrés Escobar was murdered in 1994, as retaliation for having scored an own goal.

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5YagD TIL about a meteor storm in 1833 that filled the sky with more than 72,000 meteors per hour
4DKX TIL After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but before Japan’s surrender, the United States was preparing 7 additional atomic bombs ready to use as early as August 19th, 1945.
xVBJ0 TIL In 1953, the Canadian government relocated some of the Inuit in Northern Quebec up north to Resolute and Grise Fiord. The relocation has been described as a humanitarian gesture to save the lives of starving native people and enable them to continue a subsistence lifestyle
a8MDA TIL: There is a submarine test facility in Idaho - History of the Navy test facility in Bayview, Idaho
vPPQr TIL that eating a single grape can be fatal to a dog.