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TIL a nurse placed playing cards in obvious places on top of operating room cabinets at a hospital to test for out of body or near death experiences. Not one person ever reported seeing the playing cards or even knowing they were there.

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VDeG TIL that the destruction under Genghis Khan may have scrubbed as much as 700 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere by allowing forests to regrow on previously populated and cultivated land.
0LKy TIL After the Amish schoolhouse shooting by Charles Roberts in 2006, members of the Amish community attended the shooter’s funeral in a show of forgiveness.
ne0bG TIL It is not known how many US federal laws actually exist and are in force
DQa8e TIL the 'Puckle Gun', considered to be one of the first machine guns (1718), had a specialized square shaped bullet to be used against Turks as a means to "convince the Turks of the benefits of Christian civilization".
ed9L TIL Spielberg wrote a sequel to E.T. in which Elliot receives a radio signal that leads him to believe E.T. is back. Unbeknownst to him the signal comes from an evil alien race that landed on Earth after picking up E.T.’s “phone home” distress call. He is then kidnapped and tortured.