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TIL that from 1853 until 1945, Lake Tahoe was officially known as "Lake Bigler."

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woy4J TIL that between the 1920s and the 1990s, around half a million US prisoners underwent state-sanctioned plastic surgery in attempts to rehabilitate repeat offenders based on the idea that appearance impacted the likelihood of reoffending.
E14jx TIL of Judy Melinek, a medical examiner who identified hundreds of bodies from the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, many of which were merely scraps of flesh or pieces of limb. She was called in mid-August 2002 because they had found a foot bone on top of another skyscraper 1/5 mile away.
pYvp TIL the Dead Kennedy’s started to attract an unwanted group neo-nazi punk fans in the late 70s. To combat the wave of unwanted fans, they released the single “Nazi Punks F*ck Off”.
x6jJ5 TIL that Japanese actor Bandō Mitsugorō VIII claimed to be immune to fugu kimo, naturally toxic pufferfish liver. He ate 4 portions in a restaurant with his friends in Kyoto and died 8 hours later.
rNd5M TIL State-owned enterprises accounted for over 60% of China’s market capitalization in 2019 and generated 40% of China’s GDP in 2020.