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

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bdXQ TIL that microwaves are “non-ionising” radiation, meaning they are too low-energy to damage DNA. So your microwave could give you a nasty burn (enough to kill you, even), but only in the same manner as your oven.
jAbM TIL Chris Rock snuck a 15 yo make a wish kid a copy of Pamela Anderson’s sex tape [@12:33]
gMMw4 TIL future U.S. President Grover Cleveland personally hanged two people (in 1872 and 1873) while serving as Sheriff of Erie County, New York.
PYKGe TIL Even though a chess grandmaster can perfectly rearrange a midgame chessboard after seeing it for only 3 seconds, they can't do the same when the pieces are placed at random. They rely on a process called "chunking" (pattern recognition) vs common perception that they have photographic memories.
YpKar TIL the first official Canadian Football game was recorded as having taken place in November 1861 at the University of Toronto - eight years earlier than the first official American Football game, which took place in November 1869.