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TIL a rock shot from a lawn mower can have the same force as a bullet from a .357 magnum

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VBONB TIL In 2022, 192 American citizens died in Mexico. Most of those deaths were accidents or suicides. Only 46 were ruled as homicides.
d8PQB TIL about the case of Carl Tanzler, a Florida man who dug up the body of the “love of his life” Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos, essentially taxidermied her, and then lived with her corpse in his home for 7 years.
j6BoQ TIL: The creators of the Myers-Briggs test had no formal education in psychology, were self-taught in psychometric testing and only received rudimentary education in test construction, scoring, validation, and statistical methods.
kJ8YW TIL about the infamous Ash Wednesday bushfires that ravaged the states of South Australia and Victoria on the 16th of February 1983. The fires burnt 3 million acres in a single day claiming a total of 75 lives and a total insurance cost of $324 million. ($1.16 billion adjusted for inflation)
kOg54 TIL The 320th VLA was the only black combat unit to take part in the D-Day landings . The mission of the 621-man assault force was to raise hydrogen-filled barrage balloons to protect assaulting infantry and armor from being strafed by enemy aircraft .