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TIL the week of the Russian apartment bombings, 3 FSB agents were arrested for planting a live bomb in an apartment building. They were later released after the head of the FSB claimed it was an exercise.

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abL TIL on June 29, 1995, a department store in Seoul, Korea collapsed, killing 500 people. During construction, the owner insisted on adding an unauthorized 5th floor with a swimming pool. When his engineers protested, they were fired.
R7E94 TIL that the crime that led Sisyphus to push a boulder was cheating death. He made his wife not bury him properly before he died, chained death, and tricked Persephone into letting him briefly return to earth to scold his wife and ran away instead of returning to hell.
WPN9 TIL that, prior to 1883, the United States had hundreds of timezones.
rNnGx TIL according to tribal lore, the Choctaw tribe settled in the land of present-day Alabama after sailing across the Gulf of Mexico from the Yucatán peninsula. DNA evidence supports this origin story.
GAXQ7 TIL that Mike Brown, the astronomer most responsible for demoting Pluto to a dwarf planet, titled his memoir "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming".