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TIL that a freshman girl at Columbine escaped from the cafeteria when the shooting began. Eight years later she was a graduate student at Virginia Tech during the shooting there.

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QJBOd TIL that The Apostrophe Protection Society that was founded to enforce the proper use of the apostrophe in written English was brought to a "full stop" in 2019. The founder of the society stated that "the ignorance and laziness present in modern times have won!"
85YL TIL that the genetic testing of a boy who died 12,500 years ago proved that descendants of all Native Americans, including South & Central American tribes, can be traced back at least 24,000 years to a group of early Asians and Europeans who mated near Lake Baikal in what is now Siberia.
W7YV4 TIL Zebras have poor eyesight and ostriches have poor hearing, which led them to form a symbiotic relationship through communicating and warning each other of danger.
n5kG TIL that under current South Korean laws if war breaks out South Korea doesn’t want to control its own military instead it wants the Americans to tell them what to do
QJpkM TIL That the State Flag of Alaska was designed by a 13 year old