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TIL - Mayonnaise is commonly used topically in hospitals to remove tar from burn victims’ skin

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16Ax7 TIL that during the Vietnam War the street right outside the US Consulate in Kolkata, India was renamed after Ho Chi Minh
5YOGn TIL in 1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, two heads of the Black Panther Party, were killed in their sleep by Chicago Police. It was described as a gunfight, but 99% of bullets were found to have been shot from the police, & fake bullet holes from the inside were found to have been planted by police
EJyP TIL scientists once recruited theater students to stumble drunkenly into 153 Norwegian bars and ask for another drink. They found that bartenders were much more likely to over-serve drunk women than men.
QKva We get it. OJ was considered for the part of the Terminator and planes have crashed (or been shot down) over the years.
mxZXR TIL that Otto von Bismarck challenged a scientist to a duel, but backed out after learning that his opponent choose to fight with two pork sausages, one infected with roundworm.