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TIL Author Stephen King decided to take his novel "Rage" out of print due to the fact that the book was found in the lockers of 5 school shooters over the span of 9 years.

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0wQPv TIL That the Mongol conquests are thought to be responsible for the deadliest acts in human history, with estimates of up to 5% of the world's population wiped out. Despite this, many of the Mongol victories were achieved without fighting, but instead through instilling terror in their victims.
yQlRw TIL In 1891, Tesla made a risky Demonstration to discredit Edison company's claims on Safety of AC.During the Demo, For a moment, 250,000 volts raced across the surface of his body , causing him to be surrounded by what one newspaper called “the Effulgent Glory of Myriad Tongues of Electric Flame.”
RlX1 TIL that Simpson’s co-createor Sam Simon has terminal cancer and intends to leave most of his fortune to animal charities and feeding the hungry after he passes.
9RbB TIL of the Horseshoe Theory. The idea is that the political spectrum isn’t a line, it’s more of a horseshoe shape. The extreme ends of the left and right are more similar to each other than moderate left and moderate right.
4Xk1a TIL That James Cameron only works on projects starting with "T" or "A"