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TIL gunshot wounds can cause lead poisoning years later from tiny lead fragments in the bone leaching into the body

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0gB5 TIL cats developed meowing almost exclusively for humans
M7j88 TIL that Apple has a no-villains clause for iPhones. According to director Rian Johnson, anyone who portrays a bad guy using an iPhone in a film will never receive cooperation from the company again.
loWx7 TIL the founder of Toys-R-Us, Charles Lazarus, died a week after Toys-R-Us announced it would be forced to close its retail stores.
0aZj TIL that a convicted felon named Daniel Rigmaiden used his jail time to investigate the FBI’s surveillance system used in his arrest and uncovered the secret Stingray device. He then successfully used this evidence to free himself.
Z1xB TIL in Nordic mythology, Ratatoskr was a squirrel whose sole job was to carry insulting messages between a great eagle and a dragon at opposite ends of Yggdrasil, the great World Tree