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TIL that early forensics utilized a now debunked form of pseudoscience called Optography, which was also used in the Jack the Ripper case

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ZBWv TIL about Irena Sendler who (assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members) smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and shelter outside the Ghetto, saving those children from the Holocaust.
4j06 TIL that the “essential” in Essential Oils means “essence of” and not “indispensable to humans” like it does in essential fatty acids or essential amino acids.
maao TIL the US passed an act authorizing an invasion of The Hague in the Netherlands in order to free any US serviceman being held by the International Criminal Court
wNwY TIL that in 2006 a man armored a bulldozer with steel plates and concrete (making a tank), and destroyed half of Granby, Colorado
VBBgD TIL 100 years ago in 1922 during the month of May there were more than 10 lynchings of African Americans in the state of Texas