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TIL Evelina Children’s Hospital in London contractually requires its window washers to dress up as super heroes (pics in comments)

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8a8B4 TIL If you're murdered in America, there's a 1 in 3 chance that the police won't identify your killer
l7NL1 TIL that in 1919 Pacific Improvement Company was looking to attract more people to their coastal developments. 29 year old Samuel Morse pitched the idea of a coastal golf course, and they agreed. Today this course is called Pebble Beach. (Also Samuel’s cousin by the same name invented Morse code. )
xVayo TIL Uruguay's world cup player Luis Suárez has bitten three opponents under high pressure situations. He doesn't know why he does it.
km4 TIL Iceland was officially treated by UK as a terrorist country in 2008.
nWe97 TIL that at 14, Robert McGee was tomahawked, shot with a pistol and multiple arrows, and scalped while he was still conscious. He survived.