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TIL The Discovery show Sons of Guns was cancelled when just about everyone was brought up on child abuse charges.

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jObX TIL we cry when we are happy because hypothalamus in our brain can’t tell the difference between being happy or sad
VBwEB TIL the earliest recorded murder occurred 430,000 years ago. The murder victim suffered two penetrating fractures on the forehead's left side and was found at the bottom of a 43-foot (13-meter) shaft
rR8e0 TIL the spiked ball and chain was never an actually used in warfare; it is entirely a fantasy weapon invented by later peoples but attributed to the middle ages
xKZk TIL: All white tigers are the result of severe inbreeding. Most white tiger cubs are euthanized due to some type of deformity including eyes on the sides of their heads, deformed jaws and teeth, misshapen skeletal structure, mental disabilities, allergies, and weak immune systems
6Er8Y TIL about Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy that solved his own murder case. He was poisoned with a cup of tea in a London hotel. Working with Scotland Yard detectives, as he lay dying, he traced the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service