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TIL that medical examiners and coroners determine the cause of death. Medical examiners are medically trained but coroners aren't required to be medically trained. In many states, you only have to be of legal age and have no felony convictions to be elected coroner.

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MebpB TIL that the work quarantine comes from the Italian word “quaranta” which means 40. This was the number of days sailors on a ship with a suspected infection had to stay in port before they were allowed on land.
jNdOn TIL that the New Zealander singer Wing sent Trey Parker of South Park a letter of thanks as a result of the boost of sales of her records after she was featured in a South Park episode.
PykG TIL that during the 2003 Station Nightclub fire, a reporter filmed the entire fire from the moment before the pyrotechnics went off on the main stage. He was at the club doing a piece on nightclub safety.
kORje TIL that the tiniest piece of ceramic (like from a broken sparkplug) can shatter tempered glass with minimum force.
nerXd TIL The Triangle is theoretically an instrument of indefinite pitch, for its fundamental pitch is obscured by its nonharmonic overtones. Triangle parts in classical music can be very demanding and "the triangle is by no means a simple instrument to play"