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TIL that Lake Superior is so cold that bacteria needed to cause a submerged dead body to float and surface is unable to grow. Due to this, many bodies from shipwrecks, such as the Edmund Fitzgerald, have never been recovered.

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GY75J TIL of Bass Reeves, the first black U.S marshal west of the Mississippi River. At the end of his career in 1907 at the age of 70, he had arrested over 3000 felons and shot and killed 14 outlaws.
m1ZJM TIL that the Marquis of Queensbury once told Oscar Wilde "If I catch you and my son again in any public restaurant I will thrash you". Wilde responded: "I don't know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight".
kVo1 TIL “Not my circus, not my monkey” is the Polish saying for “not my problem”
Z8pkp TIL that by law, no United States officer can outrank George Washington. He was posthumously promoted to Six-Star General in 1976.
OoP0X TIL A field sobriety test doesn't determining whether you're sober or not or even to what degree you are intoxicated. It is simply a means for a cop to obtain evidence that you are intoxicated even if you're not.