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TIL Japan has as few as two gun-related homicides a year.

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dDlXE TIL that in the movie Poltergeist they used real skeletons as props because it was cheaper than making plastic fake ones.
Yobx TIL of Dr Thomas Midgley. He is responsible for adding lead to fuel and for the creation of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) used in refrigerators. He is credited for doing more damage to the atmosphere than any other living organism ever.
7rNPL TIL The only surviving son of the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, was also a politician and briefly the eighth Premier of Manitoba. His last home in downtown Winnipeg, called Dalnavert, is now a museum
Z8xx4 Space is not empty, nor is it silent. While technically a vacuum, space nonetheless contains energetic charged particles, governed by magnetic and electric fields, and it behaves, unlike anything we experience on Earth. In regions laced with magnetic fields, such as the space environment surrounding our planet, particles are continually tossed to and fro by the motion of various electromagnetic waves known as plasma waves. These plasma waves, like the roaring ocean surf, create a rhythmic cacophony that — with the right tools — we can hear across space.
6LaX TIL that it snows metal on Venus