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TIL: Princess Diana is estimated to have been subjected to 70 g's during the crash that killed her and died from a torn pulmonary artery resulting from the extreme deceleration from 65 to 0 mph

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l7M97 TIL there were "hundreds of thousands of instances of torture" by the French military in Algeria during the Algerian War.
6dLw TIL That Ted Bundy helped detectives by giving his perspective as a serial killer to help capture Gary Ridgeway, The Green River Killer.
4JDa TIL America was named the greatest threat to world peace, beating out all challengers by a wide margin, by a massive world opinion poll conducted by Win/Gallup in 2013
EgMEV TIL Salmon sperm DNA is used in molecular biology experiments as a standard or template for PCR and as a competitor in hybridisation assays due to its high purity. It can even increase the human DNA recovered from a cotton swab.
eXrE TIL A few decades ago, everyone ate a strain of banana called the Gros Michel. Its skin was more slippery than the Cavendish, the banana that we eat today, which is the reason why banana peels have been such a prominent cartoon gag.