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TIL Many people killed in crowd disasters die standing up

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WkY7X TIL that in 1997, a scientist died when one drop of dimethylmercury permeated her latex glove. It took several months for the chemical to kill her. Prior to her death, no one knew that it could soak through latex or how it killed people.
p8QpO TIL a Kansas woman drove her car 1,000,000 miles in just 5 years.
j6jnE TIL that the USS Pueblo - a US Navy ship captured by North Korea in January of 1968 is still listed as a commissioned vessel in the US Naval Fleet
Z65v TIL the United States is the Only Country That Hasn’t Ratified the “Convention on the Rights of the Child”
bN09 TIL that dogs have a larger carbon footprint than an SUV