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TIL the term "Going Postal" originates from the 1986 Edmond Post Office Shooting where postal worker Patrick Sherill killed 14 coworkers making it the deadliest workplace shooting in US history

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1aWx8 TIL that the first known instance of written Finnish is the phrase 'I wish I knew how to speak Finnish, but I'm not able.'
kOGX4 TIL that a saxophone was among the casualties of the Challenger disaster.
XL1R TIL in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
xV8Gw TIL that in the aftermath of a car crash that had killed 5 people, two similar looking blond girls were mistaken for one another. One girl was buried and mourned, while the other was hospitalised but unable to communicate due to her injuries. Five weeks later, the mistake was realised.
kOWme TIL a new study about Marshmellow Experiment which suggests that social and economic background, and not the ability to delay gratification, is what’s behind long-term success to the kids involved