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4pQ5 TIL the UK has a bigger population than the combination of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, despite being less than 2% of their total size (by area)
E14jx TIL of Judy Melinek, a medical examiner who identified hundreds of bodies from the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, many of which were merely scraps of flesh or pieces of limb. She was called in mid-August 2002 because they had found a foot bone on top of another skyscraper 1/5 mile away.
5VnVB TIL that people who grew up in the era of black and white movies mostly reported dreaming in black and white, while the people before and after them reported dreaming in color.
YYJr TIL Pablo Escobar burned $2 million to keep his daughter warm.
OoKX7 TIL minors will no longer be able to buy sodas and potatoes chips in Oaxaca, a state of Mexico