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TIL that scientists can get four football fields’ worth of skin (for burn victims) from a single baby’s foreskin.

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yQdav TIL About John List, who killed his entire family in 1971. The murders were so precisely planned, it took a month for anyone to notice. He was caught in 1989, after a forensic artist created a lifelike bust of him, analysing Lists’ personality to get it right, and it was on America’s Most Wanted.
7r6Ob TIL the United States has the world's most violent weather, receiving more high-impact extreme weather incidents than any other country in the world.
4XWwb TIL John Boyne wrote “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” in two days, and that the book has been condemned by many Jewish scholars for pushing historical inaccuracies, downplaying the horror of concentration camps, and presenting Nazis as sympathetic figures
0dEY1 TIL the Roman Emperor Tiberius would execute boys whose sexual company he had grown tired of by having them thrown from a cliff into the sea while he watched. Some were tortured before being executed, and if they survived the fall, men waiting would break their bones with oars and boathooks.
rRjvo TIL Walt Disney tried to join WW1 so he can fight the Germans but was rejected because he was to young so he forged the date of birth on his birth certificate, and joined the Red Cross to become an ambulance driver.