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v1ZAK TIL during Katrina, the New Orleans airport was turned into a makeshift triage center. There were so many bodies that they used the baggage conveyor belts to carry the stretchers. One reporter said "I’ve been reporting for 21 years around the world and I've never seen the likes of this."
e0VE TIL a US court upheld the argument that rape is an occupational hazard of military service.
e0y96 TIL Brazilian billionaire Chiquinho Scarpa decided 2013 to bury his $500,000 car. This led to an outcry as he rather ruin his car than donate it. But at the burial Scarpa revealed his bluff to the press, saying that anyone who refuse to donate their organs bury something far more valuable than a car
NXMM6 TIL 15,498 dams across the United States are characterized as high hazard, meaning the loss of at least one human life is likely if the dam were to fail.
5BMn TIL the US military once considered building a “gay bomb,” with an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behavior among troops, causing what the military called a “distasteful but completely non-lethal” blow to morale.