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TIL criminally negligent homicide is a less serious offense than murder or manslaughter and is defined as an act of criminal negligence resulting in the death of another person

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4XJ45 TIL that in 19th Century London, John Chadwick obsessively believed that cholera was caused by 'bad air' and his actions to 'cure' it lead directly to the additional deaths of fourteen thousand Londoners
KOLQQ TIL the 2002 Canadian cartoon 'RoboRoach' (which followed the story of a cyborg cockroach) was inspired by the true story of cyborg cockroaches created by scientists at the University of Tokyo
y89a TIL that rats in Iran grew so big that snipers had to be deployed to combat the cat sized rats.
BrW4K TIL that the most weight gained for a role was 70 lbs (32 kg), which Vincent D'Onofrio did for Pvt. Leonard Lawrence in "Full Metal Jacket." The role was initially written as a "skinny ignorant redneck," but director Stanley Kubrick felt the character would have more impact if he was big and clumsy.
6E4M8 TIL natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in Gabon, Africa. They operated for a few hundred thousand years and generated an average of 100kW of power.