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TIL that the moon has "moon-quakes" and because the moon has a smaller core than earth, this causes it to ring like a bell

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R0V6 TIL that when asked why she had shot 11 people at her school, the shooter, 16-year old Brenda Ann Spencer, replied, “I don’t like Mondays.”
rNJGy TIL Railway Post Office cars sorted and delivered mail on moving trains, using hooks to catch mailbags without stopping. The last service ended in 1977, but remnants still exist along decommissioned tracks. At its peak, 9,000 trains covered 200,000 miles of mail routes.
mx1XE TIL 12% of Americans think Joan of Arc was Noah's wife, from the Bible.
Ydx7 TIL from 1993 to 2008, the same DNA was discovered at 40 different crime scenes in Europe, leading to the investigation of the “Phantom of Heilbronn”, which turned out to be a woman working in a cotton swab factory who inadvertently contaminated the swabs with her own DNA.
rRoRo TIL that a man by the name of John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Regan to impress Jodie Foster, who he stalked.