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TIL suicide bombs can result in human shrapnel. Pieces of the bomber become lodged in survivors.

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86dX TIL that if humans had eagles’ eyes, we could see an ant on the ground from the roof of a 10-story building. You would also have brilliant color vision, UV vision, and an almost 360 degree range of view.
KgJ9 TIL that the first thing sold on the internet was a bag of marijuana between M.I.T. and Stanford using Arpanet accounts.
dGaK TIL that every month all members of the United States Congress are mailed Hustler magazine for free
j6Xen TIL about Prosthaphaeresis, a technique that uses trigonometric identities to quickly approximate a product of 2 numbers by turning it into an addition. It was the only known technique to do so, preceding by 25 years the discovery of the logarithm
VM1Ak TIL Freddie Mercury used a piano as the headboard of his bed and would often play tunes that he had heard in his dreams . This was Bohemian Rhapsody began