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TIL That a few days after the Oklahoma City Bombings, a severed left leg was found in the rubble. DNA evidence showed that it from a victim, Lakesha Levy. When they went to return her leg, it was found that she was already buried with one. It is unknown who the buried leg belongs to.

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9wMDQ TIL of Ernest J. King, the American Chief of Naval Operations and one of the most disliked Allied leaders. Despite his capability, King had a short temper that made him many enemies. This led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to describe King as a man who "shaves every morning with a blow torch."
oReJK TIL there are "warm lines" for people who really need to talk to someone about mental health but don't have an emergency requiring a crisis hotline
nW9MP TIL the Lost Deck technique for box girder bridges means the plywood decking placed on top of the girders is cast into the rebar and concrete of the highway surface. The plywood is never removed and "lost" in the process.
dD0Z8 TIL In the 1500s, a priest named Diego de Landa asked a Maya scribe to produce an alphabet of his language and write a sentence. The sentence the scribe wrote was "Ma’ in k’áati’" (I don't want to). The sentence was deciphered in the late 1900s as Maya writing is syllabic, not alphabetic.
neZA9 TIL that there is a forest in France with wild wallabies. The Australian marsupials, which resemble small kangaroos, escaped from an enclosure in the 70s and have been thriving in the wild ever since.