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TIL that courtroom artists in the UK & Hong Kong draw their sketches from memory as they are not permitted to draw in the court.

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W7vDA TIL A Single Nuclear Bomb over Kansas Could Cause An EMP Over All of the Continental US
olmo TIL Ray Bradbury first titled Fahrenheit 451 “The Fireman”, then called a local fire station to ask what temperature it would take to actually ignite books. The responding firemen placed him on hold and burnt a book, then reported that the heat required was “Fahrenheit 451″.
KOrG TIL the crowd at the first guillotine execution is reported to have yelled “Bring back our wooden gallows”, because a guillotine was insufficiently entertaining.
YpdGP TIL that women’s periods don’t sync when they are together
RRj TIL that Ursula the Sea-Witch from the Disney film ‘The Little Mermaid’ was inspired by a drag queen named Divine.