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TIL you can be prosecuted for deleting your browser history– as a felony, with a possible 20-year sentence. Even if you were unaware you were the subject of an investigation.

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Me5PK TIL the solution to the world's largest math problem, calculated in 2016 using a supercomputer, takes up 200 TB of text (equal to the entire content of the world’s largest library). The award for solving the problem, posed in the 1980s, was $100, and was given to the three researchers who solved it
1aXVP TIL - Some people purposefully infect themselves with hookworm to treat allergies and other auto-immune diseases.
Awyg TIL that Major General Henry A. Barnum was shot through the side in the Civil War. Assumed dead, he was taken prisoner and survived. He kept the bullet tract open as a trophy by running a ramrod through the wound every day. He was later shot in two more battles, and survived them both.
XENME TIL of a "body farm", where the decomposition of human corpses is studied by leaving bodies outside in a variety of topographic and climate conditions. There are facilities in US, Canada, Australia, India, and UK. Over 100 bodies are donated to the University of Tennessee facility alone every year.
epOmb TIL the Tony awards were named after a woman. Antoinette "Tony" Perry was an actress, producer, and theater director who co-founded the American Theatre Wing, which entertained soldiers during World War 2. After her death the Tony Awards were created in her honor.