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TIL That police officers involved in the search for buried victims of the 'Moors murders' would shove metal rods into the ground and sniff the end to see if it smelt of 'death'.

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MBk0 TIL a teenager killed four pedestrians while drunk driving and was given no prison time by claiming affluenza: a mental illness from being too wealthy
5wQB TIL on August 16, 1942, a military blimp left San Francisco bay on a routine submarine-spotting mission. A few hours later, the airship wandered back over land and crashed with nobody aboard. Life rafts and other gear had not been touched. To this day the two man crew has never been found.
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Y8m7 TIL that preventable medical errors are estimated to kill 210,000+ hospital patients every year in the US.