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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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9Yjdm TIL not a single survivor of the original 115 settlers of Roanoke Island were ever found in 1590. There was no trace of violence, struggle or even a grave, only the word 'CRO' carved in one tree and 'CROATAN' carved in another. It is one of the oldest unsolved mysteries in American history.
PZZO TIL Stephen Colbert lost his father and two brothers in a plane crash on September 11, 1974
PYnyJ TIL: Until the 1970s, countries and individual cities had "ugly laws".These laws deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself or herself to public view."
0Bap TIL of the “Mormon Lost Boys:” young men who are ejected from polygynous communities to reduce competition and ensure enough females for a 3:1 f/m ratio. They are often dumped on the highway and told not to return, they are “dead” to their families.
D1kyV TIL David Burtka the actor of Scooter in HIMYM is acutally the husband of Neil Patrick Harris who plays Barney in said series