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TIL a man named Richard Farley stalked his co worker Laura Black for four years even after he got fired from his job. He went on a shooting spree at the workplace and killed seven people after she filed a restraining order against him

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lo1dA TIL of Adam Rainer, the man who was born and lived the first 20 years of his life as a dwarf at 4’10”. Then he started to grow at an alarming rate and died as a giant at 7’1”.
0draA TIL that the last television ever manufactured in the U.S. made its way off the assembly line in July 2005 at the former Magnavox production headquarters in Greeneville, Tennessee. The TV remains on public display in a history museum in the town.
JYK44 TIL about the theory of "the wisdom of crowds", where the median will be close, but the mean answer of a crowd of people will be closer to the correct answer.
Xrgj TIL Only 39% of Americans have Passports, that means 3 out of 5 Americans can’t even go to Canada
x6VJb TIL that the planet Mercury has a tail, much like a comet, thanks to sodium atoms blasted off its surface and atmosphere by solar winds