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TIL Denzel Washington subjected himself to being waterboarded for his role in the film, “Safe House”

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9Y6DX TIL before police used fingerprints to identify individuals, they used a system called Bertillonage which used several measurements of different body parts. It lost popularity when Leavenworth prison had two inmates with the same name, measurements, and physical appearance.
kJBve TIL Somalia has the largest Camel population at an estimated six million within its borders and twice as many camels as Sudan.
yQMOp TIL up until 1982, the British government still had the power to create laws in Canada, including making amendments to Canadian constitutional law. In fact, Canada could not technically make amendments to its own constitution without permission from the British government.
GmoQ TIL it is legal to own a grenade launcher in the United States
KYYlQ TIL Mark Twain declared that he discovered the right way to do an autobiography by talking about whatever interested him at the moment rather than writing it chronologically. From his bed, Twain dictated nearly 2,000 pages of the book to his stenographer over three years