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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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PYQvV TIL only 12.5% of US serial killers fit the profile most often typified in media today— an intelligent, white male in his 20s.
y6Bl TIL that a Chicago man bought a car in his ex-girlfriend’s name and - after the breakup - abandoned it, illegally parked, in O'hare airport. The car then accumulated over $100,000 on 678 parking tickets, which the city asked the ex-girlfriend to pay.
GZEj TIL During the 9th century AD, two Vikings graffitied their names in the runes of Hagia Sophia. These carvings have survived since the Byzantium era, and are still viewable in modern-day Istanbul.
X0DpQ TIL that according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term "grandfather clock" originated from the popular song "My Grandfather's Clock", written in 1876 by American composer Henry Clay Work.
e5AE TIL the presence of eyebrows is more important for facial recognition than the presence of eyes.