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TIL A respected medical examiner in Shelby County, Tennessee was found handcuffed to a window guard, wrapped in barbed wire, with a motion-sensitive bomb strapped to his chest and lye burns to his face. Detectives investigating the case concluded that he did it to himself.

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QNvkd TIL that while the Selective Service System only requires men between the ages of 18-25 to register for a possible draft, US federal law considers all able-bodied men between the ages of 17-44 as part of the militia, meaning all men in that age range can be conscripted.
ZZ9o TIL an ancient Buddha statue recovered by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite.
aweB0 TIL: In 1672 the Dutch Prime Minister became so unpopular that a mob murdered him & his brother and then cooked and ate them.
M7De8 TIL in 1986 an American woman, Judith Richardson Haimes, who worked as a psychic had an allergic reaction after receiving an iodine tracer injection (for a CAT scan) that allegedly disabled her psychic powers. She sued the hospital and was awarded $600,000 for pain and suffering and loss of income.
0w8XM TIL George Washington was an imposing figure at over 6 feet tall and 225 pounds. The average man at the time was only 5'6".