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TIL code adam, a safety protocol for missing children created by Walmart in 1994 was so successful, it was passed as law

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b9NZE TIL that DNA analysis in 2017, revealed the remains found in the Birka Viking grave, the most famous of its type were female, not male, as long assumed.
LQDm0 TIL That a Panopticon is a specifically designed jail that allows all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single security guard, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.
jNLE TIL If you inhale a pea,it can sprout and grow in your lungs.
1680X TIL that at the start of WW1 famous Serbian General Radomir Putnik was in enemy territory. The Austro-Hungarian Emperor granted him safe passage to Serbia so that he could take charge of the Serbian Army. He was then able to successfully stop the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia.
164e4 TIL Los Angeles county jails segregated Asians from 1994-2004 after the Mexican Mafia ordered attacks on "Japanese, Chinese, Cambodians, Vietnamese and Koreans".