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TIL According to the FBI: hands, fists and feet are used to commit twice as many murders in the U.S as rifles (including assault rifles)

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l7oj5 TIL about Narcocorridos or drug songs commissioned by drug cartels to sing about the illegal drug business
6XbW TIL that the lettering on Darth Vader’s chest plate is in Hebrew. It reads “His deeds will not be forgiven until he merits. (triumphs)”
WkW8 TIL NASA has an Office of Planetary Protection, in case we DO find life on other planets.
epkmJ TIL: there is a lake in Uttarakhand (India) called Roopkund Lake or the "Skeleton Lake" which has he skeletal remains of an estimated 600-800 people, some of them date back to around 1,200 years.
VBlRk TIL of Francis Bowes Sayre Jr., grandson of U.S. president Woodrow Wilson. Unlike his grandfather, who authorized and imposed widespread federal segregation, Francis was a fierce opponent of segregation, going so far as to march alongisde Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery.