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TIL Norwegians are using ‘Texas’ as a slang term for 'crazy’

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D1Gnr TIL, how not to piss off an angry japanese slenderman
keZe TIL Cheese has small amounts of morphine in it
xV9l1 TIL the FBI supplied 48 police agencies with Stingray surveillance hardware that mimics cell phone towers, and had them sign non-disclosure agreements to stop them confirming their use of it or its capabilities to anyone, including courts of law. Cases would be dismissed rather than expose the tech.
V1pp TIL one of the worst nuclear accidents in history occurred after a security guard skipped his shift at an abandoned medical facility housing a radiological device to watch “Herbie Goes Bananas”
yyNp TIL: that an entire operation theatre from the 1700’s was discovered in the roof of a London church in the 1950’s. The entrance had been walled up and the room undisturbed. The operating table has cuts in it left from amputations and other procedures.