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TIL when her son showed signs of mental illness, the mother of the Virginia Tech shooter sought an exorcism from a church rather than mental health professionals

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jNBGj TIL that Quentin Tarantino has no respect for the biopic because they are just big excuses for actors to win Oscars.
voOD TIL in 2006 FBI warned of KKK members in the police force
xVkmk TIL the story of FedEx's founder, Frederick Smith, submitting his business plan as a term paper and receiving a failing grade with an admonition that it would never work, is a myth. He dimly remembers he got about a C, mostly because "it wasn't a well-thought-out paper."
0wxgM TIL that Linuk IX, a communist-era housing project in modern Slovakia, is Europe's largest gypsy slum.
gMBa9 TIL: Massive ant swarms on the sidewalk are not ants gathering food or establishing a colony but actually "large scale" territorial ant wars between two colonies