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TIL: Hollow point bullets are not allowed in war, yet many police forces around the globe utilize them. Sweden is one of the countries which do…

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bBB9 TIL In the heat of a battle in the Spanish-American war, Former Confederate cavalry hero General Joseph Wheeler allegedly cried “To hell with the Yankees! Dammit, I mean the Spainards.”
9YV16 TIL of Carfentanil, a drug based off of fentanyl that is 100-200x stronger than the latter. The Canadian RCMP intercepted a shipment of 1kg coming from China in 2016, enough lethal doses to wipe out the country. (50million+ lethal doses)
Y7Rpx TIL Because darker-skinned people have a very low risk of skin cancer, using sunscreen for skin cancer prevention is not necessary. However, sunscreen can still off their aging effects from sun
xvRD TIL that there is a species of frog that will intentionally break its bones to make ‘claws’ as a form of self-defense
6Ep0Z TIL That “linguicide” is an actual term that refers to the death of language. Through linguicide, a language goes extinct every two weeks