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TIL Over 500 people have been killed by tasers in the U.S. since 2001

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rRo11 TIL leopard slugs have 27,000 teeth.
8ebyG TIL a music producer in Japan put two different endings for the physical CDs of an album themed around quantum physics. This way, people would "observe" one of the two outcomes of the album, as in quantum mechanics.
5Ve1B TIL Lydia Angiyou, a Canadian mother, fought off a polar bear bare handed to protect her son and other children, before a hunter shot it 4 times to bring it down
kWlg TIL that the forbidden fruit was never identified as an apple in the original Hebrew texts.
Xaoj TIL that scientists have discovered the first fully warm-blooded fish