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TIL a Chechen nationalist group took an entire school hostage in the town of Beslan, which resulted in the death of over 300 people, including children. This group has been increasingly associated with major jihadist/terrorist groups in the Middle East and remains prevalent in the world to this day.

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rWn0 TIL An entire town was completely destroyed by a single, massive tornado. Population is currently zero and there are no plans to rebuild.
EgZKW TIL The first Toy Story film (1995) required 800,000 machine hours and 114,240 frames of animation in total, divided between 1,561 shots that totaled over 77 minutes. Pixar was able to render less than 30 seconds of the film per day.
4lKo TIL a single mother who won a $188M Powerball jackpot last year pledged to spend her money on her children and her church, but has instead tied up over $21M keeping her (alleged) drug dealer boyfriend, Lamarr “Hot Sauce” McDow, out of jail on drug, weapon and street racing charges
VMXdk TIL Spaghetto is what you call a single strand of spaghetti.
8Dm4 TIL that there is a punctuation mark called an “interrobang”. It is the name given to “?!”.