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b9mOp TIL that the first recorded use of Forensic Entomology was by Chinese detective in 1200s AD. In a murder investigation in a village, detective Song Ci put every scythe in the village for inspection and found the culprit when flies- attracted to trace amounts of blood- kept landing on his scythe.
8akjZ TIL that Richard Dawkins coined the term 'meme' in his 1976 book 'The Selfish Gene' to describe the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.
jNeEN TIL that the Unabomber was a victim of MK-Ultra.
ZPZG TIL that Constantinople became Istanbul because people started referring to it as “The City” and the Greek phrase for “In The City” is pronounced “Is Tin Poli.” Over time, this became Istanbul.
dD6OB TIL that despite the notoriety of the Three Mile Island accident, wherein the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station suffered a partial meltdown, it resulted in no deaths and epidemiology studies on the region concluded that “the accident had no observable long-term health effects.”