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TIL that the reason mental health professionals have a legal duty to breach confidentiality and warn potential victims or law enforcement if a patient poses a credible threat- is due to the Tarasoff case.

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Dnwr TIL A truck carrying 21 tons of dynamite exploded after being shot by a sniper outside my hometown leaving a 100 ft crater.
nW4V9 TIL in 1940 Swedish cryptographer Arne Beurling deciphered the Nazi's T52, a machine more complex than Enigma. This way, the Swedes knew about Operation Barbarossa before it began. Since they wouldn't reveal how this knowledge was attained, their warning to the Soviets was not treated as credible
JJQQ TIL After 24 years, scientists had to stop drilling the deepest hole on Earth when at 12.2 km, temperatures exceeded 350F.
oYbW TIL Helena Bonham Carter’s maternal grandfather saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II
a87pN TIL Sweden has a comparable grenade explosions per capita rate to Mexico. Most grenades used are ex-Yugoslavian M75 hand grenades