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TIL that the parents of the Columbine shooters were sued by some of the victims’ families for 2.5 million dollars and that this cost was covered by their Homeowners Insurance.

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Dv1p TIL that Christopher Columbus was never painted. Therefore, every image that we have of him is a fake and only an assumption of what we think he looked like.
ADjYB TIL studies show people who are falling in love and those who suffer from drug addiction share similar brain chemistry. This reasoning has led to using Oxytocin - "the Love hormone" - as a successful treatment for drug addiction.
oYNR TIL The first confirmed Case of AIDS in the US was a 15 year old Missouri boy…in 1969!
LeEZ TIL of the ‘flic-flac’ desert spider - so called because of it’s ability to double its speed by cartwheeling out of danger
nek9b TIL that Steven Spielberg, while filming Raiders of the Lost Ark in Tunisia, avoided the dysentery that afflicted Harrison Ford & most of the cast & crew. Spielberg's secret weapon? The suitcases full of SpaghettiOs he brought with him on the shoot.