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TIL there is a site where you can combine LEGO sets to find out what else you can build

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W8wL TIL that Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower shooter, asked for an autopsy in his will to determine what made him kill. The autopsy found a tumor pressing on his amygdala, which controls the fight or flight instinct and possibly influenced his actions.
VMMm0 TIL Two-Thirds of Americans support a national gun registry.
oBDnA TIL a pulp and paper mill in Ontario was a NAZI pow camp in WWII, and a captured navigator drew a map of the world by hand that is still there behind glass.
AZKn TIL The spooky droning gibberish played in the end credits of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy is creator Maxwell Atoms talking backwards saying: “No, no. This is the end of the show. You’re watching it backwards.”
8aYpL TIL about Jon Postel, a researcher who in 1998 hijacked the internet to prove a point about it's poor security. Instead of being reprimanded he was appointed to run ICANN, the authority now responsible for overseeing domain naming and ensuring the internet's ongoing stability.