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TIL: For the last 10 years you're far more likely to die from homicide in the US Army than die in combat

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NbWb TIL Doctors can now grow skin for burn victims using the foreskins of circumcised infants. One foreskin can produce 23,000 square meters, which would be enough to tarp every Major League infield with human flesh.
e0Gjg TIL that after the Danish Navy was destroyed by the British in the Napoleonic wars, the Danes responded by planting 90,000 oak trees toward the Navy’s rebirth. In 2007 the Defense Ministry was informed the trees were ready.
xOKo TIL the inspiration for the webcam came from a Computer Lab of the University of Cambridge. The cam was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee pot by providing a live 128×128 greyscale picture of the state of the coffee pot.
ADR6x TIL that the British Royal Society of Chemistry recommends adding tea to milk, and not the other way around, as adding milk to tea results in "significant denaturation" of the milk, adversely affecting flavor.
gn7W TIL in WW2 the Finnish bombers joined the formations of returning Russian planes and bombed the landing and landed planes.