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TIL a US Circuit Court decided that Nancy Grace “played fast and loose” with her ethical duties in her lawyer days, and that she “demonstrated her disregard of the notions of due process and fairness.”

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5YXan TIL The Donner party refused food from Native Americans who then kept their distance when they witnessed the Donner party resort to cannibalism
ANQrl TIL of BioSteel, high-strength fiber-based material produced by goats, genetically modified to produce spider silk.
wLY48 TIL The oldest-known message in a bottle was tossed overboard from a German ship in 1886 and found off the coast of Wedge Island, Australia earlier this year.
N7ObQ TIL that in smaller bomb blasts such as suicide bombings only 6% of people on average die from shrapnel wounds, the real danger is blast overpressure, which will rapture lungs. If you have time, you’re actually best off to not hold your breath, but to open your mouth, breathing in small intervals.
DQK6P TIL that Martha Stewart dated Anthony Hopkins but ended the relationship after she saw The Silence of the Lambs.