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TIL that sometimes saying that you "blew someone's brains out" isn't exaggeration; the "Kronlein shot" is "a gunshot wound to the skull in which the cranium is blasted open and large pieces of the brain ejected out of the skull"

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ADAno TIL of Walt Whitman's friend, Silas Soule. At 17, he was escorting slaves on the Underground Railroad. By 22, he'd staged two prison heists & become a blacksmith. At 26, he defied orders to participate in a massacre of Native Americans, testified against its architect, and was murdered for it.
GJg4 TIL that a woman in my suburb was charged with “assaulting a police officer” after she squirted her own breast milk on said officer.
QNy09 TIL that the woman who sings the iconic "Give it to me baby!" from The Offspring song "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) went on to voice Asajj Ventress from Star Wars: The Clone Wars
6jXY TIL that Bottlenose dolphins like to do drugs by finding pufferfish, (which produce a powerful neurotoxin and are deadly to eat) and gently chew on them to “get high” on a small amount of the toxin, and will even pass a pufferfish around to other dolphins to share the “drugs.” Puff puff pass!
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