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TIL a 17 year old online trading scam artist was killed via a bomb that one of the people he scammed sent him in the mail in retaliation

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5r5n TIL On average, a 20 year old uses 20% of their strength to get out of a chair, and an 80 year old uses 80% of their strength
X0Ge6 TIL That the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, is not connected to a sewer system and as such has trucks manually remove human excrement from it daily.
k45m TIL that a woman almost lost custody of her children because a DNA test showed that her children weren’t hers. Turns out there are humans who exist with two sets of DNA if two fertilized eggs fuse together during conception. The matching DNA was eventually found in her cervical tissue.
x6kY0 TIL: The entire 3 season run of Jackass aired in less than a year
KmAJ TIL there’s a group called “Science Cheerleaders”, made up of NBA and NFL cheerleaders who also work or study in STEM fields, that encourage girls to get into science studies