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TIL no deaths are necessary for the crime of genocide to have been committed.

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Y4yP TIL the difference between a casket and a coffin lies in the design. Coffins are tapered at the head and foot and are wide at the shoulders. Caskets are rectangular in shape.
5YZoB TIL nobody really knows how nukes would be launched by the UK. The PM holds the sole power to launch a nuke. However, constitutionally, they should discuss the decision with the cabinet first. They should also discuss it with the monarch, due to the monarch being the head of the armed forces.
D1onp TIL Disney World has 7500 acres of empty land, stemming from a 1970 environmental promise Disney made to Florida to never built anything on it.
xVnB TIL people suffering borderline or moderate depression more accurately interpret reality.
b6YjQ TIL that the Subway sandwich Italian BMT was named for the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit System, one of a few companies that once operated the New York subway system.