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TIL Adam Smith predicted the 13 colonies would defeat the British Empire & become a great empire itself

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N7ObQ TIL that in smaller bomb blasts such as suicide bombings only 6% of people on average die from shrapnel wounds, the real danger is blast overpressure, which will rapture lungs. If you have time, you’re actually best off to not hold your breath, but to open your mouth, breathing in small intervals.
nerWo TIL: The National Park Service has an Investigative Services Branch which does the equivalent job of the FBI
epyv4 TIL Dealey Plaza in Dallas remains virtually unchanged since 1963. There is a proposal to make Elm Street into a pedestrian promenade since tourists often wander onto the painted X where Kennedy was shot as well as an amphitheater for visitors to contemplate the assassination site
8e7kV TIL the kitti’s hog-nosed bat, AKA the bumblebee bat, is arguably the smallest mammal, measuring in at 1.1 to 1.3 inches in length and 2g in weight. They are also little home bodies, leaving their roosts for less than an hour a day for food.
LQlgV TIL that in 2009, a 2 year old child was sentenced to life in prison in North Korea, for the crime of having parents who smuggled a bible in to the country.