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TIL that, differently from animals, there’s no known general and reliable tranquilizer for humans, meaning that tranquilizer guns in movies are likely to either kill the target or be ineffective.

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neGxd TIL that the Forensic seismology machine that they use to detect nuclear bombs going off in Florida is Falsely alerts that a nuclear bomb went off somewhere in the world every Sunday because the Garbage man comes by the facility and slams the lid of the dumpster too hard, setting off the Detector.
XEpJD TIL the Leningrad siege in WW2 has been classified as an genocide by some historians. American estimates the death toll was higher than combined american and British losses in the war, "The Siege of Leningrad killed more civilians than bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined."
yQJvw TIL Tom, from Tom & Jerry was actually called Jasper in the shows debut.. his name as Tom, or Thomas, was solidified i the next episode "The midnight snack". Additionally Jerry was called Jinx in the first episode.
M7YJ8 TIL about this 400 year old Japanese white pine Bonsai, which has been taken care of for 5 generations, and survived Hiroshima
O46 TIL the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere is in a river in Maryland.