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TIL Humans almost became extinct in 70,000 BC after a supervolcano erupted and sent 650 miles of earth into the air, dropping the population to as low as 40 breeding couples.

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dbZ7 TIL that China employs mobile “death vans” to carry out its executions, of these 65% result in harvested organs.
r5Ye TIL of Blackstone’s Formulation: the theory that it is much worse to punish an innocent man than let a guilty man go free.
pY6o8 TIL it rains fish in a Honduran town every year.
LJ0 TIL South Korea occasionally blasts KPOP music at North Korea
4meJ TIL of bank robber McArthur Wheeler. Because lemon juice can be used as invisible ink, Wheeler (wrongly) assumed that putting it on his face would make him invisible to the bank’s security cameras. He was caught later that day.