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TIL That More Than A Year Before Him And Dylan Klebold Murdered 13 People At Columbine High School, There Was A Warrant Drafted To Search Eric Harris's Home Because Of Death Threats He Made To Another Student. It Was Never Submitted To A Judge

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eyaJ TIL Christopher Lee received Tolkien’s blessing to play the role of Gandalf, if a movie was ever released, but he played Saruman instead. He was also the only person involved with the Lord of the Rings films to have actually met Tolkien himself.
R7vpl TIL Beethoven was once asked to an improvisational battle by a rival (Daniel Steibelt). During the duel, Beethoven took a piece of his rival's music, turned it upside-down, then improvised on that theme for over an hour. Steibelt left halfway through the performance.
N7wA1 TIL Pigeons use roads and highways to navigate, even if it makes their journey significantly longer than flying in a straight line from A to B.
VaA0 TIL the Chinese word for cat is Mao, so cats pretty much say their name all the time like Pokemon
YeJA TIL nearly 70% of the 99,000 weapons seized in Mexico in connection with criminal activity from 2007 to 2011 came from the United States.