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TIL Netherlands is so safe that jails are being closed due to the lack of criminals.

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Kj4G TIL a DEA agent accidentally shot himself in the leg while giving a lecture on gun safety and claiming that “I’m the only one in this room professional enough to handle this glock 40”
wLwdY TIL Idaho got its name because some guy George M. Willing proposed the name to Congress, claiming that it was Shoshone Indian for “Gem of the Mountain,” when it was really just a word he made up.
KOW9G TIL that our brains do their best to keep us from dwelling on our inevitable demise. A study found that the brain shields us from existential fear by categorising death as an unfortunate event that only befalls other people.
1WnD TIL that employers cannot take away their employees tips
ob7Y TIL if an octopus gets stressed out, it might self-cannibalize and eat it’s own limbs.