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TIL that Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) wrote that criminals are distinguished from noncriminals by multiple physical anomalies and that these anomalies were able to predict the type of crime (theft, robbery, murder, arson)

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m1XGp TIL Industrial Biotest Labs (IBT) conducted almost 1/3rd of all safety testing for chemicals and drugs in the US from the 1950s to 70s. It was later was discovered that IBT had been falsifying data amd mislead federal authorities on the safety of many commercial products for approval.
OBee TIL that apple seeds contain 0.6mg of hydrogen cyanide per gram of seed, meaning that if a person were to eat about half of a cup of apple seeds, he or she would die of cyanide poisoning.
lo60G TIL that before the Battle of Pratapgarh, Shivaji met with the enemy general Khan; prepared for treachery. He wore an armour under his clothes which saved him from being stabbed during a hug, to which he retaliated by disembowelling the general with Wolverine-style claws. The battle was won.
4RyX TIL that Mughal emperor Shah Jahan got rid of the scaffolding on the Taj Mahal by telling peasants that any of the scaffolding material they took was theirs to keep. Apparently they took it away in a single night.
4kOJo TIL In November 2018, American missionary John Allen Chau was killed by the Sentinelese, an uncontacted tribe in the Andaman Island chain in India, during an illegal expedition to the island, where Chau had intended to convert the tribe to Christianity.