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TIL of Adolf Topperwein, an exhibition shooter who in a 10 day period in 1907, shot 72,500 flying wooden blocks, missing only 9. His longest run without a miss: 14,500.

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L9aP TIL that Simon Cowell praised Rebecca Black’s song “Friday”: “the fact that it’s making people so angry is brilliant”. He advised her to not “listen to anyone over the age of 18. I’m being deadly serious. Whatever she’s done has worked … she’s the most talked-about artist in America right now”.
yljV TIL Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was extremely racist & founded the organization with the hope that “feeble-minded” minorities would leave reproduction to “more suitable” races.
nW6Qr TIL a woman named Chante Mallard hit an unhoused man named Gregory Biggs, lodging him in her windshield, alive. She drove home and parked in her garage where she let him suffer for days before dying. She was only caught months later because she talked about it at a party.
e0Be4 TIL in 2011, the FBI revealed Notorious B.I.G. was killed by a very rare type of ammunition, which also was found in former LAPD officer (and suspect) David Mack's home.
90Wr TIL A study showed that children whose parents placed the children’s pacifiers in their own mouths before giving it to the child were less likely to develop allergies like eczema and asthma later in life.