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TIL That Runway Numbers are Determined by the Compass Bearing the Planes Approach From

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68Wm TIL that a 2007 study found that the murder of Kitty Genovese was NOT witnessed by dozens of people who refused to help her
JOn1 TIL of a disease called Adermatoglyphia, where people are born without fingerprints. It is exceedingly rare, affecting only four known extended families worldwide.
NeeQ TIL that in 1946 the U.S. Public Health Service infected 1,000 Guatemalan citizens with STD’s for experiments.
PYbwE TIL Karl Schmidt, a herpetologist who was tasked with identifying a juvenile Boomslang snake, when the venomous snake bit him, instead of going to the hospital, Schmidt went home, believing the juveniles couldn’t produce a fatal bite. He recorded all his symptoms in his diary until death.
E1naW TIL, that Denmark saved 99% of Danish Jews by sending them to Sweden once they realized the Germans were going to begin rounding Danish Jews up, and send them to camps.