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TIL that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (the Columbia High School murderers) actually were bullied in high school, including an incident in which they had a cup of shit thrown at them and another in which a group of students gathered around them and covered them in ketchup

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rRPEe TIL that after Puyi, the last Emperor of China, was dethroned, he worked as a street cleaner and would visit the Forbidden Palace as a tourist and point out the various objects on display that he used to own as Emperor.
JBl8 TIL there is a company, named Maximum Performance, that creates fake poop for testing new toilet designs. Pic at the link.
Me6W7 TIL There's a museum in Iceland that houses the world's largest display of dicks
jNJYn TIL that a Queens man, Raffi Stepanian, has mined the cracks in the sidewalks in Midtown's Diamond District, New York City, for bits of diamonds, rubies, platinum and gold to make a living. Over six days, he says he collected enough gold for two sales totaling $819.
nWVrb TIL That when Depression era Louisiana governor Huey Long was assassinated, he flagged down a taxi to take him to the hospital where he died of internal injuries.