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TIL People blew up schools and planned to blow up school buses with kids in them over textbooks they didn’t agree with in West Virginia

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ZP8p TIL in 1953, there was only 53K of RAM in the entire world.
VMAw0 TIL that Idaho is the only U.S. state to declare cannibalism illegal. Idaho adopted the ban in 1990 as a reaction to a fear that eating humans would emerge in ritualized practices.
87jG TIL As part of the War on Terror the song “Killing in the Name” was used by military interrogators at Guantánamo Bay as a form of psychological torture. “The fact that music I helped create was used in crimes against humanity sickens me,” noted Tom Morello.
kXY5 TIL the difference between a sprocket and a gear: a gear meshes with other gears, while a sprocket meshes with a chain, belt or other kind of perforated material
X0Ej6 TIL that after the tragic suicide of socialite Dorothy Hale, Frida Kahlo was commissioned by Hale's friend, Clare Booth Luce, to paint a likeness of Hale in remembrance. Instead of a beautiful portrait, however, Kahlo painted a sequence of Hale leaping to her death from her 16th story apartment.