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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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MGyK til that breast milk makes cancercells suicidal
NXG5M TIL that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was informed of Osama Bin Laden’s death before the rest of th world found out. Johnson also made a tweet where he stated that he was proud to be an American, 45 minutes before Bin Laden’s death was announced by the White House.
ZX4 TIL that the Portuguese Man O’ War jellyfish is not a single creature, but actually a colony of interconnected specialized organisms functioning in unison, which are themselves incapable of independent survival
p8ZbO TIL about Aimo Koivunen, who overdosed on methamphetamine in WW2 while evading Soviet forces and ended up skiing 100km during the night losing his squad, ammunition and food supplies
7rZRb TIL: When foxes discovered fairy penguins on a small Australian island, they nearly wiped the colony out. Swampy Marsh, a chicken farmer, began sending Maremma dogs to protect the birds. Over the next 10 years not a single penguin was killed by a fox.