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TIL a soldier who fired his gun in celebration in NYC got sentanced to 4 - 12 Years For Manslaughter after turning himself in after the stray bullet killed a mother in Queens.

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o0aA TIL that a family organized a fake kidnap of their 6 years old kid to scare him, because they thought he was “too nice”
PY9PL TIL during the premiere of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ 241 people walked out of the theater demanding to know what the film was about. Creator Arthur C. Clarke once said, “If you understand ‘2001’ completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered.”
oRlY8 TIL that Devin Gaines earned five bachelor's degrees with honors simultaneously at the University of Connecticut, averaging 24 credits per semester and three hours of sleep per night. Tragically, he drowned in 2007 due to a lack of swimming skills.
p8yxA TIL the longest serving member of the International Olympic Committee is Dick Pound, a former Olympic swimmer for Canada
kdym TIL in 1623, the German polymath Wilhelm Schickard designed what was probably the first mechanical digital computer. Schickard died of bubonic plague soon, but his machine was replicated later and is likely to have worked in spite of some imperfections.