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TIL handling salmon in suspicious circumstances is technically illegal in the UK under the Salmon Act 1986

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EXdp TIL there is an accurate 200 acre scale model of the entire Mississippi River Basin (over 800k acres) that was completed in 1966, and subsequently abandoned in 1993.
5YRmp TIL that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was part of the Navy codebreaking team that, in 1943, fatally targeted the flight of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack. In 1932, Stevens witnessed Babe Ruth's called-shot home run in the Yankees-Cubs World Series.
yewv TIL an officer of the US Navy, James Stockdale, became a POW. To prevent his captors from using him as propaganda, he cut his scalp with razors, beat his face with a stool until he was unrecognizable, and slit his wrists.
y6m8 TIL the US government killed an estimated 10,000 people by intentionally poisoning alcohol during prohibition
mxrEv TIL that if you add 250ml of ethanol to 250ml of water, you get less than 500ml of liquid. This is due to strong hydrogen bonding that draws the different molecules close together, and because ethanol interferes with any open structures in the water, causing the molecules to pack closer together.