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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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xYJ0 TIL that the special seaweed that tastes like Bacon when fried or smoked, Dulse, is already available in some stores in the smoked variety
P14VG TIL that my favorite Halloween song, "Thriller," was written by an Englishman named Rod Temperton. The list of popular songs that he wrote blew me away. I really enjoyed listening to all of those songs on the radio when I was growing up and I'd never heard his name. "The Invisible Man" indeed!
DVdj TIL the Mexican government distributed a pamphlet to would-be illegal aliens describing how to safely enter the United States illegally and live there without being detected.
p8Xdp TIL Over 100 bronze Roman dodecahedrons "from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD" have been unearthed over the past three centuries. No written sources from the period mention these objects, and scholars continue to speculate about their mysterious purpose.
ZpYGa TIL that Samsung has so many subsidiaries that it also makes guns, tanks, ships, medical equipment, insurance, clothes, cars, and the tallest building in the world.