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TIL; there have been at least 9 confirmed political assassinations in the United States since 2000

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698d7 TIL Broccoli only became available in grocery stores in the UK and Ireland in the late 1970s
rRdEW TIL of Terence Kirk, an American soldier who was captured by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor day and spent the entire war at a brutal prison camp. While there, he built a camera out of scrap, and took many pictures. After the war, he was put under a gag order, and only told his story 38 years later.
WkoYB TIL that Euler's work in mathematics and physics touched upon so many fields that he is often the earliest written reference on a given matter. In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.
xVm45 TIL there was a study which polled 1000 men and 1000 women to find the ideal placement of a nipple on a female breast. According to the results, men preferred "nipple placement which give the breasts with a more youthful look" where women preferred "placement which give a more realistic look"
8eVRL TIL before banking, coin banks were commonly used throughout human history to save money. Pig-shaped banks were used by medieval Javanese people in Indonesia. Although, a modern cultural icon, the "piggy bank" has been around for a very long time.