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TIL a 20 year old man ended his life after thinking he lost $750,000 on an options bet on the stock trading app Robinhood.

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ADgdw TIL that the source of the mythical Jackalope may have been a virus that causes rabbits produce horn-like growths.
0w8my TIL the Road Runner in the original Looney Tunes never left the road. Every single scene he was in always had him standing or running on a road.
yQNMJ TIL That Americans sought comfort TV after 9/11 and watched so much Food Network that the station had to restructure itself to appeal to a general audience. This led to the creation and subsequent rise of reality cooking shows like Chopped and Iron Chef USA.
KOKY4 TIL that the house mouse (domestic mouse) migrated from regions within India to the rest of the world. This has large scale implications to the origin and spread of agriculture, human settlement and human civilization itself.
b9Ox7 TIL about the Banana Massacre of 1928, where the US threatened Colombia with military invasion if it didn't end the ongoing Chiquita workers' strike. The Colombian army fired on unarmed protesters, men, women, and children, killing somewhere between 800 and 3,000.