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TIL the man who killed President McKinley, often dismissed as a mentally disturbed anarchist, did it in part due to US policies in the Philippines at the time, which though nearly forgotten today, resulted in the deaths of 200k-250k civilians and over 5,000 US troops

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XEW0Q TIL cows are the cause of 20 times more deaths than sharks. Whenever a cow gets scared they will charge and attack, considering they are over 1000 pounds death due to a cow charge is highly plausible. Sharks usually only kill humans when they mistake them for some other source of food like a turtle.
lopoa TIL that Clockwork Orange was so controversial in the UK that Stanley Kubrick requested Warner Brothers withdraw the movie from any further releases in the country only a year after its release, and thus up until Kubrick's death in 1999 it was very difficult to watch the movie legally in Britain.
0ww1j TIL that Roman concrete, subject to marine corrosion, has stood for over 2000 years, while modern cement can break down in as few as 50 years. The concrete the Romans used contained volcanic ash and got stronger over time: the ash was slowly replaced with Al-tobermorite, a rare hydrothermal mineral.
W7YnB TIL After Robert Redford sent Paul Newman a wrecked Porsche for his birthday, Newman had the Porsche crushed and got 5 guys to secretly put it into Redford's house's vestibule
KYjBJ TIL eradication of screwworms in the 60-80s has saved North/Central American farmers and estimated 1.3 billion USD annually.