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TIL Iran punishes acid-attackers by blinding them with acid.

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ypQJ TIL Charles Redheffer was an American inventor who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine, He was later exposed when an engineer found a hidden cord that led to an upper floor. Upstairs he found an old man who was turning a hand-crank with one hand and eating bread with the other
wev7 TIL the average person from Uganda is only 15 years old.
67pw TIL that a male moose will break off it’s antlers after mating season to conserve energy for winter, and regrow a new set each year; which can grow up to an inch a day, making it one of the fastest growing animal organs!
XZMD TIL In 2005 an innocent man was pinned to the ground by British police and shot 7 times in the head point blank thinking he was a suicide bomber and later tried to cover it up.
rN4Gy TIL The Praetorian Guard assassinated thirteen Roman emperors. "An astonishing rate of murders for a unit whose sole purpose was the protection of the emperor."