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TIL a Japanese 21 yr old man massacred almost half of the people in his village after getting rejected by several girls

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E1Nl0 TIL of Freedom Day: On Feb 3, 1964, nearly half a million New York City school students protested against segregation. The largest protest for civil rights in US history, it was twice as large as Martin Luther King Jr's March on Washington.
LXbd TIL Van Gogh shot himself in the chest and then went and smoked a few cigarettes before finally dying.
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