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TIL that the town seal of Whitesboro, NY depicts a white settler strangling a native american. In 2009, city officials maintained that “The seal will stay just the way it is.”

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Y7mnP TIL famous American journalist Webb Miller mysteriously died after falling from a train in London after covering a debate in the House of Commons on May 7, 1940.
JDX1 TIL in 1998, a woman hit and killed a cyclist when she was distracted by her Tamagotchi.
a8r1b TIL a Japanese 21 yr old man massacred almost half of the people in his village after getting rejected by several girls
5Y1Q8 TIL about how British forces burned the city of Cork in Ireland in 1920 as an act of retribution in the Irish War of Independence
oWM8 TIL MySpace turned down an offer to buy Facebook for $75 million in early 2005