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TIL women can use PMS as a defense in the court

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kOaOm TIL that cruise ships have morgues in them. On average, roughly 200 people die on cruise ships each year so most ships have the capacity to store up to 10 bodies at a time
YkVx TIL that, in October 2012, Boy Scouts of America was forced to release 20,000 pages of documentation on 1,200 cases of child sex abuse. They had allegedly been helping to cover up about 1/3 of those cases.
OGkdR TIL that a neutron star can have a mass similar to our Sun but be only about 30 km across. One such neutron star spins at an incredible 43,000 rpm, rotating 716 times each second. This makes it one of the fastest-spinning objects in the universe.
KYlX6 TIL that the Toilet waste is never intentionally jettisoned from an aircraft. All waste is collected in tanks and emptied into toilet waste vehicles. Blue ice is caused by accidental leakage from the waste tank.
VaRB TIL that beer cans in Japan have braille on them so blind people don’t confuse alcoholic drinks with soft drinks