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TIL: A police Lamborghini in Italy was equipped with a refrigerator cooler for the quick transportation of donor organs from fatal accidents.

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69yJ7 TIL in January 1991 20 year old downhill skier Gernot Reinstadler passed away after freak accident involving his skis and safety netting. In front of a large crowd he was essentially torn in two at the pelvis, leaving a train of blood and entrails behind in the snow.
8addG TIL Greenland has fossilized plants buried under 1.4 kilometers of ice. This implies the ice melted and reformed in the last million years.
4k0B6 TIL that in 2013, LG had an event in Seoul, where they would tie free phone coupons onto balloons and release them into the air. Participants ended up bringing BB guns and pointed staffs to try and get the balloons down. 20 people were injured because of this event.
W7QbY TIL the first successful insanity plea in the US was in 1859 by congressman and future Civil War general Daniel Sickles for the murder of his wife’s lover, US District Attorney Phillip Key (the son of Francis Scott Key).
R545Q TIL about immunity privilege that prevents our own immune system damaging (or expelling) our own eyes, placenta, testicles, brain, fetus and CNS