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

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865L TIL in order to capture a genuine look of surprise on Hans Gruber’s face, Alan Rickman was dropped one second early at the end of Die Hard.
9gEM TIL that the Greek mathematician Archimedes was killed during the siege of Syracuse when he refused to acknowledge his Roman captors because he was too engrossed in solving a math problem.
xQ65 TIL 242 people died and at least 630 others were injured in a nightclub fire in Brazil in 2013. Everything could’ve been avoided if outdoor pyrotechnics hadn’t been used indoors and if people trying to get away hadn’t been trapped by security guards demanding their bills to be paid.
byVQ TIL: Blood type is so important in Japan, you can be hired (or fired) for it, as well as buy blood-type-specific products like condoms that “are all the same, but contain different instructions for each blood group”
7kRx TIL that the world’s oldest conjoined twins are 63 years old and have been both best friends and enemies throughout their life.