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TIL in 2008 a Texas man tried to make his suicide look like a murder by tying helium balloons to the gun so it would float away and look like someone else had done it. The investigator was able to solve the case after he obtained a copy of an October 2003 episode of CSI showing a similar hoax

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l7K9a TIL prior to 1972, the NFL did not calculate ties in a team's winning percentage. This is why the Spartans whose Win-Loss-Tie record was 6-1-4 (.857 win %) and the Bears at 6-1-6 (.857) went to the first NFL playoff game in 1932 and the Packers at 10-3-1 (.769) were not declared the NFL champions.
o70K TIL Jim Bowie - creator of the Bowie knife - was in an epic duel where he was shot 3 times - stabbed with a cane sword which was deflected by his sternum, and bludgeoned with a gun. With his knife he killed one man and severed the forearm of another. He won the fight and lived.
0dJlR TIL Bin Laden wrote his last and final will shortly after 9/11 and in it he urged his children to not join al-Qaeda and to not continue Jihad.
a8EAL TIL that while men and women have the same average IQ, men’s IQ curve has a wider distribution while women have a narrower distribution. So men tend to have more geniuses and more idiots while women tend to be closer to the average.
JYPym TIL at the coronation of William the Conqueror the crowds cheered so loudly the guards thought it was an assassination on the new king and started killing and burning homes around Westminister Abbey. The clergy finished the coronation despite the fighting.