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TIL of the WASP Injector Knife, which once inside the victim, expels 850 psi of CO2 creating a basketball sized air pocket, freezing surrounding internals

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lo9Pr TIL Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to secretly baptise dying patients, without regard to the individual's religion. A former member of the MOC, writes that "Sisters were to ask each person in danger whether they want a 'ticket to heaven' to lure them for consent and then baptize them.
eJeE TIL That Samsung has built a sentry gun which sits in the Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea, which is hostile to anyone it senses who cannot provide an authorised access code
WOOL TIL a boy was scalped by a Sioux chief, Little Turtle, and lived to tell about it. His scalpless head was photographed 30 years later.
g8Rb TIL There is a waterfall in a park in New York which curtains an ‘eternal flame’ - a natural gas leak which visitors keep lit all year round
e6M4 TIL: Rick Moranis was on board for a Spaceballs sequel called - Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II