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TIL The Judge Who Sentenced Saddam Was Executed by ISIS

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8a8j4 TIL about the Bystander Effect, a psychological phenomena in which the more people present at an emergency, the less likely someone is to intervene
bjk9 TIL that the MLB away uniforms are grey for a reason. At the turn of the century the away teams didn’t normally have access to laundry facilities on the road, thus stains were not noticeable on the darker grey uniforms as opposed to the white uniforms worn by the home team.
kmX7 TIL all of the JFK files are scheduled to be opened by the end of October.
P1yg TIL that LSD (acid) is not considered addictive by the medical community, is not known to cause brain damage, and has extremely low toxicity relative to dose. How low? There has never even been a documented human death from an LSD overdose.
e005 TIL that in 1967, German lab workers working with Ugandan monkeys came down with an illness. They then documented their own illness, and eventually they isolated the virus.