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TIL Human cadavers donated to science are used as crash test dummies because they’re better at showing organ and tissue damage than conventional dummies (for obvious reasons).

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KOVp4 TIL: After being acquitted of murdering his wife Claus Von Bülow held a dinner party where his lawyer Alan Dershowitz explained to his guests how the evidence pointed to his innocence. After hearing this Norman Mailer grabbed his wife and said:, "Let's get out of here. I think this guy is innocent."
8aZbK TIL about Douglas Bader a pilot who lost both his legs in a plane crash in 1931 but went on to become a legendary pilot in WWll - captured by the Germans and given prosthetic legs - the first thing he did with them was try to escape!!!
OX5R TIL that one of the first things free blacks could grow, eat, and sell were watermelons. It became a symbol of freedom that was corrupted into a negative stereotype by southern whites and still persists today.
Y7ZZW TIL Kurt Russell was the voice of ‘Copper’ in The Fox and the Hound
QvR9 TIL that the phrase “get some” (in the sexual sense) is attributed to Abraham Lincoln.