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TIL Skin slippage allows investigators to remove the entire hand-skin from unidentified bodies, and wear it like a glove to get fingerprints.

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rNddw TIL about Hannah ocuish a native American 12 yo girl who is believed to be the youngest person ever executed in the United States.
JYKb8 TIL The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed an estimated 675,000 Americans (far more than the 53,402 who died in combat in World War I). The impact was so profound as to depress average life expectancy in the U.S. by >10 years & may have played a significant role in ending the World War 1 conflict.
lOjr TIL a medication called DRACO (developed by MIT researchers) could potentially cure you from any known virus from herpes to the flu if they had the support and funding to continue it.
9DoD TIL that Amazon ironically deleted copies of “1984” from customers’ Kindles, violating their own terms of service agreement.
Zyeo TIL that Jenny’s phone number, 867-5309, is not only a prime number, but also a double prime and a member of a primitive Pythagorean triple