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TIL: Nazi doctor Josef Mengele's bones used in Brazil forensic medicine courses

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XXZ6 TIL that police broke up a Lego heist ring last year for stealing $40,000 worth of bricks and found that one of the suspects was also in possession of another $160,000 of bricks—18 pallets worth.
b1WN TIL During human embryological growth, the anus is the first structure to develop. Unfortunately many humans never develop beyond this point and continue through life as assholes.
VMQGm TIL the Church of Scientology sponsored a car in the 1988 Indy 500. It crashed on the second turn.
gdR4 TIL that “kummerspeck” is a German term which refers to weight gain from emotional over-eating, and is literally translated as “grief bacon”.
E174d TIL the word "hundred" hasn't always referred to exactly 100 it was sometimes 120. 120 can now be called a "Long Hundred"