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TIL Martin Scorsese directed the music video to Bad by Michael Jackson

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nNEr TIL on average, less than 1 person a year is killed by a shark, but 100 million sharks are killed every year by humans.
v1PN4 TIL that Great Britain is one of only a few states that have an uncodified (unwritten) constitution. It consists not of a single document, but of a number of treaties, diverse laws, practices and conventions that have evolved over a long period of time.
VMVR0 TIL Some of the most famous Egyptian Pharaohs weren’t found in their tombs. They were hidden in two main caches by priests 3000 years ago and discovered in the late 1800s.
LQewP TIL in 1952, Jimmy Carter led a team of nuclear scientists in disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor undergoing meltdown. To accomplish this, Carter, alongside other American military personnel, personally lowered himself into the reactor to disassemble it by hand.
OGBJR TIL about The Wire of Death, a lethal electric fence created by the German military to control the Dutch-Belgian Frontier after the occupation of Belgium during the First World War. Somewhere between 2-3k people died as a result of trying to make it past the fence.