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TIL about body farms where they study the decomposition in a variety of settings to solve deaths

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7rZPO TIL, during the Norway 2011 shootings, an innocent teenager originally from Chechnya, Russia, was arrested and interrogated as a suspect because he did not react with the same level of tears and hysteria as the other survivors.
4A9X TIL that McDonalds are banned from ever opening a store on the Cayman Islands
D1dVv TIL When counting down to the launch of an explosive, e.g. when testing a new model of gun, it is customary to omit "5" from the countdown sequence because "five" sounds too similar to 'Fire!'
mwrx TIL when asked about the attack on pearl harbour in 1941 Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamatoto said “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve”
ANwog TIL that there are more trees on earth than there are stars in the milky way [3 trillion to 400 billion]