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TIL That around 40% of US homicides remain unsolved.

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opro TIL some shots of the parade scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off were secretly filmed during an actual parade. The production’s float was inserted into the parade “unbeknownst to anybody, all the people on the reviewing stand. Nobody knew what it was, including the governor”
l9wK TIL that shortly before the outbreak of World War I, Grigori Rasputin publicly spoke out against Russia going to war with Germany. Stating: “If Russia goes to war, it will be the end of the monarchy, of the Romanovs and of Russian institutions.“
d8PvQ TIL of William Henry Johnson who was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2015 for fighting off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while experiencing 21 wounds on May 14, 1918.
grLO7 TIL in Leave the World Behind (2023), a coordinated attack of 1) disabling communications and transportation, 2) synchronized chaos via disinformation, and 3) civil war and societal collapse was the most cost effective way of destabilizing a dysfunctional society.
b96wZ TIL a liver transplant only requires a small section from the donor, because it will regenerate to the full size in the recipient. Interestingly, a child can receive a transplant and the liver will grow normally as they mature