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TIL a 39 year old man brutally murdered his mother when she forgot to get him concert tickets to see Avril Lavigne

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kYPB TIL that in 1997, a school shooting was stopped by a Principal retrieving a gun from his car holding the assailant at gunpoint.
PYZYn TIL the movie 'Dallas Buyers Club' won an Oscar for best hair and makeup despite only having a $250 budget for it all.
aw7jL TIL Hitler proposed a peace treaty to Churchill in 1941 by which the Germans would have evacuated Western Europe if the UK remained neutral when Germany attacked Russia, Churchill refused.
VM8l0 TIL the two holes on on a crocodile’s snout aren’t actually it’s nostrils. They are spaces that allow the croc’s bottom teeth to poke through so that they can comfortably close their jaw.
8eagK TIL That the hair style Princess Leia wears in Star Wars, was inspired by women of the Mexican Revolution, most notably, guerrilla fighter Clara de la Rocha.