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TIL The US military sends its doctors to Chicago to give them practice for gunshot wounds

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DQdnP TIL the Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation holds the record for the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster (MV Dona Paz in 1987 - 4385 dead) before having four more of its ships capsize and total at least 1461 more deaths with hundreds more missing. The shipping line still operates today.
XEaak TIL In Colombia, dried ants replace popcorn as the typical movie theater snack.
JYPw1 TIL that Dutch people, currently the tallest population in the world, actually used to be the shortest population in Europe just 150-200 years ago
9AZG TIL Humans almost went extinct about 70,000 years ago.
EZeX TIL that in Oregon, a citizen may issue a traffic ticket to a Law Enforcement Officer under ORS 153.058