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5YnPr TIL that Karen Wetterhahn, a researcher at Dartmouth College, died within a year of exposure to merely 2 drops of dimethyl mercury on her gloved hand.
d8NGr TIL : France has an Algerian skull collection
65kY TIL in 1992, a Lawyer and a Judge were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay. Instead, they stumbled upon archives documenting an international conspiracy involving the torture, murder, and imprisonment of 480,000 people, now known as the Archives of Terror.
5YeRn TIL red spider lilies are poisonous and were planted near burial sites in Japan to prevent animals from digging up corpses. As a result the flowers are now associated with death, funerals, and the afterlife.
wLQNE TIL While crime in Antarctica is relatively rare, prevalent Alcoholism has led to fights and indecent exposure. Other crimes include illicit drug use, torturing and killing wildlife, racing motorbikes through environmentally sensitive areas, assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, and arson