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TIL That Mirrors are Often Next to Elevators to Keep People Busy During the Wait

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weJ TIL - The US Military is purchasing Abrams tanks, 105MM Howitzers and everything in-between for ‘homeland defense missions, domestic emergency responses, and providing military support to civil authorities.’ Seriously… Read the procurement lists.
l7G7N TIL Saddam Hussein's son Uday murdered his bodyguard at a party in front of horrified guests
oWDK TIL that in 1983, a man confessed to his wife’s murder after part of a female skull was discovered in a peat bog near their home in England. He was convicted based on this confession. The skull turned out to be from someone who actually died about 1750 years earlier.
LkL7Q TIL Mötley Crüe Front man, Vince Neil killed friend and fellow musician Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley and caused brain injury to two other people while driving drunk in 1985. Because, in Neil's own words, "that's the power of cash".
LQE8v TIL the average elephant poops 220 pounds (100 kg) a day.