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TIL a woman named Akiko Takakura survived the Hiroshima bombing while being only 300m away from the hypocenter

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lDjB TIL of Terry Grosz, a Fish and Game warden, who swam a mile down a river in the dark in order to be reeled in by illegal fishers. After writing citations and confiscating their fishing rods, he swam back into the river.
YkKW TIL that there is an actual medical term called “Sense of Impending Doom”
4kkON TIL: James Doohan, Scotty from Star Trek, landed on Juno Beach as a soldier in the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on D-Day.
AP8g TIL: There is a Federal law ordering the US AG to gather data on police excessive force. And it’s been ignored for 20 years
ADxAn TIL that 11 U.S. states have Privacy in their constitution. Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Montana, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Washington, unlike the U.S. constitution.