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TIL since 2003, police officers have killed more Americans than the war in Afghanistan and Iraq

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BpBe TIL NBA player Pete Maravich said in an interview when he was 26 that he “didn’t want to play in the NBA for 10 years, then die of a heart attack at 40” He proceeded to have a 10 year NBA career, and then die of a heart attack at 40.
6EXnl TIL "End of the world" predictions are almost as long as the whole of modern human civilization. There are predictions about the end of the world going back to the time of Jesus Christ and it hasn't stopped.
JYkW8 TIL members of the Heaven's Gate cult were carrying $5.75 in their pockets at the time of their mass suicide in 1997 in reference to the fare to get to heaven on the tail of a comet in Mark Twain’s short story Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.
ANK8x TIL haggis has been banned from being imported into the US since 1971 due to a ban on food containing sheep lung
yQE9e TIL On Oct 30, 2005, Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, was mourned when her casket was placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for two days. She was the first woman and the second African-American to lie in state there. She was the 31st person and the first American not a U.S. government official.