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TIL that Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City is still the deadliest act of domestic terrorism.

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bk1Q TIL Both of Jack Black’s parents were Aerospace Engineers who worked on the Apollo 11 mission.
5Yjn8 TIL because of Calibri's status as the default font in MS Office, there has been many instances of forged documents being identified because this font was used. A Canadian business owner facing bankruptcy typed 2 trust documents dated before Calibri's release in 2007, exposing them as forged.
PYXg TIL that a 67 million-year-old dinosaur mummy was found in 2007, a lot the body still in tact.
ej1D TIL that the most successful pirate raid in history was Henry Avery’s capture of the Indian treasure ship Ganj-i-sawai in 1695. The plunder was £600,000 worth of jewels and precious metals, equivalent to £52.4 million or $81 million today.
eJj5 TIL that a whale’s skull is so thick that it requires a world war 2 anti-tank rifle to euthanize one that has beached itself.