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TIL the last year the United States went without any deaths in a school shooting was 1981

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l7ema TIL that Peter Jackson has a perfect replica of Bag End in his basement. You go down to the wine cellar and pull a bottle which opens a door, then there’s a long corridor into a mock torture chamber. Then you pull a book in a bookcase, the bookcase opens, and you walk into his perfect Bag End
d86jE TIL of Khalid Sheldrake, a British Pickle Manufacturer who moved to Xinjiang and was declared King of Islamistan in 1934
RoQ4 TIL M&M’s stands for Mars and Murrie’s
9e0M TIL on one of its first test flights, the Boeing 787 spent 19 hours and 2/3rds of the United States drawing the number 787 and the Boeing logo.
dDmo9 TIL about actor Jonathan Kendrick Lewis who was arrested three times between 2011 and 2012. In September 2012, he bludgeoned his landlady and her cat to death before falling off the roof of her house where he had been renting accommodation.