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TIL Eminem tried killing himself in 1997 after he was fired from his job and couldn’t afford a gift for his daughter.

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NjaQ TIL 196 troops, 14 truckloads of water, a mobile surgical unit, 45 military vehicles, and 3 tons of purified water were sent by Mexico as aid after Hurricane Katrina
XE78D TIL: Town planning was an Olympic event up until 1948
Xger TIL in 1987 a former airline worker shot his boss mid-flight, causing the stewardess to tell the pilot “we have a problem”. The pilot asked “what kind of problem?”, and at that moment the man shot the stewardess dead and announced “I’m the problem” before murdering the pilots and crashing the plane
lo9k5 TIL actor Scott Glenn refused to reprise his Silence of The Lambs role of FBI agent Jack Crawford in the subsequent movies because the research he conducted for the original film disturbed him so much. It still apparently causes him anxiety to this day.
awrlZ TIL of Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic British artist who can draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once. He can draw entire cities from memory, after just a single, short, helicopter ride. When he drew Rome, he drew the exact number of columns in the Pantheon