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TIL that 50-60% of drug addiction risk is genetically inherited.

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yQ9ap TIL In 2004, a Belgian man was issued a speeding ticket that claimed his Mini was going at 3380 kph (2,100 mph/mach 3) at the time.
nePVB TIL that there are five different colors of blood among living things barring anomalies.
KpbG TIL of Suicide showers, also known as “widow makers,” are showers where the water is heated in the shower head rather than the traditional method of being fed from a centralized hot water tank.
ZmjY TIL that the body fat of a 440 lbs woman caught fire during cremation and almost destroyed the entire facility. Because of this, new crematories are being built to hold individuals weighing up to 1,000 lbs.
6EKo8 TIL for 26 years, German feminists Ottilie Assing and African-American Abolitionist Frederick Douglass were believed to be having an affair. I’m August 1884, after learning Douglass remarried to Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris.