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TIL even though professional wrestling is deemed “fake” the sport has a much greater track record for personal injury than MMA

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DQowY TIL about Captain James Purrington, a Revolutionary War veteran who murdered his wife and six of his children before killing himself in July 1806.
Zk9a TIL tasers shoot confetti with tiny serial numbers printed on it so that it can be linked to the person who fired it.
x6By7 TIL about the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash where a single person out of the 45 onboard survived. He was the plane’s mechanic.
8R8b TIL that while high profile scientists such as Carl Sagan have advocated the transmission of messages into outer space, Stephen Hawking has warned against it, suggesting that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on.
6EmQZ TIL in 2006, a freelance journalist from California was jailed by federal district court for 226 days. This is because he refused to turn over his videotapes of an anti-G8 protest, in which some protesters vandalized property and one of them being choked by a cop