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TIL that Target (yes, that Target) runs a state of the art crime lab, one of only twelve accredited private labs in the world, on its corporate campus in Minnesota. It often provides outside assistance to law enforcement at no charge and has been involved in a number of high profile cases.

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wlMo TIL that 4% of the sand on Normandy beaches are still made up of metal particles from D-Day landings
6QNY TIL a man blew his head off in the middle of the Harvard campus, as an “as an experiment in nihilism”, as described in his 1900-pg manifesto.
ADdP4 TIL: conceptual and non-conceptual mental states. Conceptual is beliefs that shape your current world view. Non-conceptual state can represent the world even though the bearer of those mental states need not possess the concepts required to specify their content.
8a8a TIL that Samsung made the chips for Apple’s iPod Touch for its first 3 generations
myAy TIL Loch Ness is so deep that it contains more freshwater than all the lakes in England combined.