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TIL that a gorilla’s punch has 1300-2700 pounds of force. That’s enough to shatter a human skull with one hit

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0lAL TIL a Canada couple engaged in a neighbor feud dumped massive piles of fresh cow manure along their property line. A judge found them guilty of using the poop as a tool of harassment and fined them $15,000.
DQ5bp TIL about Exploding Head Syndrome, where some people have auditory hallucinations of loud crashing and exploding sounds when they're falling asleep and/or waking up
awEOL TIL about the Mandaeans, and ethno-religious group native to southern Mesopotamia. They were likely the first to practice baptism, and are the only surviving Gnostics from antiquity.
0wkep TIL why lawyers say 'attorney at law'. It's to distinguish them from attornies in fact, which is when you give a relative the legal power to make decisions on your behalf. Attorney at law is a legally trained representative who acts for a party.
Y7ypr TIL that the power to punish pirates is explicitly mentioned in the US Constitution