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TIL that Tarzana, Los Angeles is named after John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke a.k.a. Tarzan.

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WkwBY TIL during a gunfight between an off-duty sheriff’s deputy and two suspects, the deputy managed to fire a bullet straight down the barrel of one of the suspects guns. Investigators later said it was a “one in a billion shot”. One suspect was shot in the leg and arrested, while the other got away.
p84AN TIL that Nature Chemistry, a scientific journal, has published a painstakingly researched list of all consumer products verified to be chemical-free on one of their blogs.
xQDb TIL in 1958, the US Air Force made plans to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon and wanted it to visible by the naked eye on earth. They hoped it would boost American morale to counter the USSR’s advances in the space race. Project_A119
R0vw TIL There was an Attorney General that was a sole hold-out that refused to go along with a settlement that would shield the banks from the mortgage fiasco lawsuits. NY States Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman.
p8O6Q TIL that commercial boosting, the act of a low ranked player paying a highly ranked player to place their account in a high rank, is a criminal offense in South Korea. Punishments can be up to 2 years in prison or a fine up to 20 Million Won, or 18,000 USD.