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TIL, Elliott Rodger's complaints about so-called "rejections" from women as his excuse for a killing rampage in 2014, we're actually a perception he had that manifested after doing what others would call 'self-rejecting' and being 'closed off' from society.

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RPy7 TIL in 1809, a woman diagnosed with an ovarian tumor rode 60 miles on horseback to see a surgeon who was willing to extract it. It had never been done before out of fear it would kill the patient. After the 22.5 pound tumor was removed from her body without anesthesia, she lived another 32 years.
j6MDQ TIL that footage from the video game Arma 3, a military sandbox game, has been mistaken for actual combat footage and has been used in news reports a number of times due to the realistic nature of the game.
gLR9 TIL King Alexander of Yougoslavia refused to do public events on Tuesdays because 3 family members had died on Tuesdays. When he finally DID begin a state visit on a Tuesday, he was assassinated.
6Wd7 TIL when the invading Philip of Macedon sent this message to Sparta - “You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city”, they sent back a one word reply - “If”
BKLd TIL that during ‘Operation Focus’, the opening offensive airstrike of the 'Six-Day war’, the Israeli Air Force managed to destroy the entire Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian Air Forces in about 3 hours. Over 450 planes were destroyed, and 18 airfields were rendered unusable.