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TIL when forensic science was in its infancy, a woman - who developed the legal medicine department in Harvard - created doll houses depicting crime scenes. These early tools were used to teach crime scene analysis.

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4amo TIL the Department of Health and Hospitals in Louisiana ordered a privately funded rescue mission to destroy 1,600 pounds of venison donated by Hunters for the Hungry. They were made to pour bleach on the meat as an “extra precaution” so it couldn’t be reclaimed from the dumpsters.
rR8Kw TIL about an experiment "universe 25" that studied societal collapse due to overpopulation using rats that inspired the children’s book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
v1Zmj TIL of the Japanese Economic Miracle whereby Japan's GDP went from $91 billion in 1965 to $1.065 trillion in 1980 & was the world's 2nd largest economy. This was achieved through "shūshin koyō" or the guarantee of employment in big corporations & highly unionized blue-collar jobs.
VML80 TIL that Hokusai, the artist behind the famous 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa', illustrated a series of shunga erotica called 'Dreams of the Fisherman's Wife' which includes vivid depictions of women having sex with octopus. Published in 1814
b9OPp TIL "Roses are red/Violets are blue" dates back to 1590 with the lines: "In a fresh fountaine, farre from all mens vew//She bath'd her brest, the boyling heat t'allay;// She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,// And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew."