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TIL that in 2007 Paul Boyd, an animator for cartoon series Ed Edd ‘n’ Eddy, was shot dead in public by police after suffering a breakdown from his bipolar disorder

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D1QDv TIL the USSR was so massive it covered 1/6 of the world's land — about as big as North America
d8618 TIL that Sada Abe killed out of love and carried the penis of her lover around for many days.
6pr8 TIL that payed, a common misspelling of paid, is an actual word that means an act of sealing the deck or seams of wooden ships with pitch to prevent water leakage. This makes it an atomic typo(link in comments)
v1xD8 TIL of the Lululemon murder. The victim Jayna Murray was great and stabbed at least 322 times and the medical examiner said she was likely for most of it. She had 107 defensive wounds alone. The murderer killed her because she got caught stealing a pair of pants.
b9BME TIL Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Quran using his blood as ink. The 605 page book contains roughly 27 liters of his blood and is kept in a mosque in Iraq behind 3 vault doors.