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TIL For every meth lab bust in Nevada, there are nearly 1500 in Indiana

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rke TIL on average 1 in 4 Norwegians knew a victim affected by the 2011 terrorist attack
5YO1k TIL that during an experiment, chemist Karen Wetterhahn accidentally spilled two drops of organic mercury on her hand. That small amount of mercury would kill her in less than a year, despite her wearing gloves at the time and taking appropriate measures to clean herself up.
JYPJv TIL The major world leaders of WWI were all cousins. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, King George V of England, and Czar Nicholas II of Russia. Their grandmother was Queen Victoria.
lEPr TIL a British soldier once won the Victoria cross for attacking the enemy with beer bottles during the 1950 Korean war.
d8PXr TIL that Colin Campbell Ross, an Australian, was executed in 1922 for the murder of a child (a case which was sensationalised by Keith - father of Rupert - Murdoch's newspaper). After the original evidence was tested for DNA in 1998, the case returned to court, and he was finally pardoned in 2008