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TIL there was a Bubonic Plague pandemic that was considered active from 1855 to 1960. It killed 12 million people in China and India alone.

by whatilearned September 16, 2022, 8:57 pm

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TIL filming the duel between Inigo Montoya & The Six-Fingered Man was special for Mandy Patinkin, who had also lost his father — to cancer. So defeating the villain “meant I killed the cancer that killed my dad.” This brought extra weight to the line “I want my father back, you son of a bitch.”

by whatilearned September 12, 2022, 2:16 pm

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TIL of the McCarthy Massacre, when Louis Hastings intended to cut off the isolated village of McCarthy, Alaska, kill all the residents, dump the bodies on a glacier and destroy a part of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. He killed six of the 22 residents before being being arrested.

by whatilearned September 11, 2022, 8:11 pm

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TIL about Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian Playright killed via poison poison tipped umbrella.

by whatilearned September 11, 2022, 5:15 pm

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You are going to be killed in 24h no matter what but you must choose your killer out of any living human as of now, who do you choose?

by QuestionGuy September 11, 2022, 4:31 pm

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TIL 108 billion people have lived on Earth. And nearly half, 52 billion, have been killed by mosquitoes

by whatilearned September 10, 2022, 7:10 pm

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TIL that in 1889 a dam owned by an exclusive hunting and fishing club gave way, causing a flood that killed 2,209 people in southern Pennsylvania. The club’s members included many of the richest men in America and efforts to hold it legally responsible went nowhere.

by whatilearned September 10, 2022, 7:00 pm

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TIL that during the British rule of India from 1769 to 1944, a total of 12 famines occurred which combined, killed an estimated 56-80.3 million people and up to 45 trillion dollars of wealth was taken.

by whatilearned September 10, 2022, 3:59 am

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I’m not crazy, J”Schlatt” killed the queen.

by CopyPastaArchive September 10, 2022, 1:19 am

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TIL 720 fire-fighting men and women were killed in the line of duty during WW2 in England and Wales

by whatilearned September 9, 2022, 9:40 pm

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What killed your feelings for someone you were madly in love with?

by QuestionGuy September 5, 2022, 12:25 pm

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Chuck Norris once threw a grenade that killed 50 people.

by cringeyjokesman September 5, 2022, 5:17 am

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