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TIL that in 2014, in Hangu, Pakistan, 14 year old Aitzaz Hasan Bangash saved his high school from a suicide bomber by confronting the man alone. While other students fled into the school for safety and to raise the alarm, Aitzaz held the man at bay until his bomb detonated, ending his life.

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wong7 TIL Dallas' first skyscraper, a 15-story, neo-classical tower built in 1909 was torn down in 2012. The tower's site was replaced by a giant 30-foot fiberglass sculpture of an eyeball. The artist said there’s no deep, hidden meaning but he wanted to make something that speaks to a lot of people
6l9X TIL: all female placental mammals menstruate, but only female humans, bats, elephant shrews and some primate species bleed, which is called overt menstruation. Other mammals completely reabsorb the endometrium in what is known as covert or ‘true’ menstruation.
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QJRwp TIL of the violent episode of the civil rights movement, the Orangeburg Massacre. On February 8, 1968, a civil rights protest at South Carolina State University turned deadly when 3 young men were killed, 28 people wounded, shot as they fled the assault by law enforcement.