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TIL a Judge ordered a suspect to have mouth taped during sentencing.

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RGN6 TIL Johnny Knoxville is the result of “significant inbreeding”. This was discovered by a genealogist he himself hired.
wo58P TIL: there is a classic dutch Christmas song about a boy who kills his dad after his dad serves his pet rabbit for Christmas dinner.
YRKr TIL that, before he died, Ötzi the Iceman leaned a bow stave against a rock, where it was found still upright 5,000+ years later
14e7 TIL Nazi Germany produced Chlorine Trifluoride for use as a dual purpose incendiary and poison gas in WW2. ClF3 causes almost anything to spontaneously explode on contact, including wood, concrete, sand, gravel, glass, asbestos, water, and of course flesh.
eJ7J TIL in 2010 the RIKEN institute in Japan created mutant cherry blossom trees by firing ion beams at them in a particle accelerator. The mutated trees now bloom 4 times a year and produce more flowers.