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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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v1m08 TIL that the term zombies comes from Haitian folklore, used to describe a dead body reanimated from magic
E9wV TIL Boulder, CO has been the least obese U.S. metro area for the past 3 years at 12.5%. Most obese? Southern tip of Texas, 38.5%
95Op TIL wasps have facial recognition skills on par with humans.
KlWa TIL A man convicted of manslaughter, while drunk driving, settled out of court with the victim’s family for $936 to be paid $1 at a time to remind him what he had done to their daughter.
oyn7 TIL a man in Taiwan was mauled by a lion after he jumped into their enclosure with a bible in an attempt to convert them to Christianity.