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TIL in 2015 a father saved his son's life when doctors wrongly declared him braindead and were taking him off life support. He barricaded himself with a gun in the hospital and had a stand-off with SWAT until his son squeezed his hand. The son made a full recovery

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5VmEp TIL “Corpus Delicti” is the principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime.
jNryE TIL Dan Snyder, who owns the Washington Redskins ruined the life of a National Park Ranger by cutting trees down along the Potomac River so he could see the river from his house. The trees were located in a national park, and the ranger who raised concern about the trees was raided by US Marshals
89AV TIL police cars in New South Wales take photographs and log license plates, locations and timestamps for every car that passes them on the road. The data is stored for 5 years.
e0A8g Today I learned that there are taste buds on testicles and anuses. they seem to be part of the chemical sensing of sugars or amino acids but for the most part their full function is unknown.
wWbW TIL that octopi, octopuses, and octopodes are all correct plural forms of the word octopus.