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TIL Murder rates were so high during the 1970s and 1980s in Miami, FL that the Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office rented a refrigerated trailer from Burger King to handle the overflow of corpses

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16ePr TIL that the Portugese Man o' War (Physalia physalis) is not a single organism (like a jellyfish) but a colony of clones. The creature is made up of multiple genetically identical organism, each of which alters itself to take on a different form/function to create the individual parts of the colony
R0Dj TIL the US has been using the same poverty guideline since 1965. It assumes we spend 1/3 of our income on food, & sets the federal poverty level at 3x the estimated cost of a family’s food. However, we now spend only ~1/6 of our income on food, while other necessities have become far more expensive
QBdE TIL Of a bank in Italy which offers loans in exchange for wheels of cheese. Currently they house 430,000 wheels, with a value up to 190 million euros.
gvA7 TIL the ‘Department of Defense Excess Property Program’, hands out over $500M worth of free surplus military-grade weaponry to state and local law enforcement each year, militarizing hundreds of jurisdictions a year.
16oDr TIL: In 2021, the man with the largest family in India died. He had 39 wives, 94 kids, and 33 grandchildren. He was the head of a religious sect and lived in a pink complex with 100 rooms. He once married 10 wives in a year and would have 7-8 by his side at all times.