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TIL 40% of workers in New York masturbate while on the job

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a8dPJ TIL Crescent Wrench is a brand that was genericized to a category of wrenches
DQgag TIL it’s a myth that any amount of alcohol consumption kills brain cells and the quantity required to actually kill a brain cell would also kill you. Instead, alcohol does harm dendrites, which are the branch-like ends of brain cells that are key for passing messages from one neuron to another.
QJNme TIL that GSG 9, the elite German police unit, completed 1500 missions between 1972-2003, in which they only used their weapons five times
WZP4 TIL Billy Milligan, a criminal had life so disturbed that his mind fractured into at least 24 personalities. For each of these personalities; his speech pattern was different, his accents were different. He sat different ways in the chair.
lGn7 TIL of Franz Von Werra, a Nazi POW who was transfered to Canada to deter his multiple escapes and recaptures. He escaped again in less than a month, traveling through the US, Mexico, Brazil, Spain and Italy to become the only Western held POW to return to combat.