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TIL the United Kingdom writes, prints and stores all of its laws on goatskin

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9QpQ TIL the first pedestrian killed by a car in UK happened on August 17th 1896. Mrs Bridget Driscoll was frozen in place by panic as a car ran her over at the incredible speed of 4 MPH.
6llm TIL A 6ft 7in man named Peter Freuchen escaped from almost certain blizzardly death by fashioning a shiv out of his own feces and digging his way out of his snowy grave. He also amputated his own toes, wrote 12 books, and won the 64,000 dollar show (that’s much more now with inflation).
VBOEZ TIL that, in 1972, several natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in Oklo, Gabon. They worked around 1.8 to 1.7 billion years BP, continued for a few hundred thousand years, and produced around 100kW of thermal power
ZLNR TIL that for a science fair experiment in 1969, a 14 year old scientist used genes to change chicken feathers from white to partially black, which his teacher said was playing God.
kJ64E TIL Leonardo Da Vinci stole dead bodies to better understand human anatomy