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TIL some cadavers that are donated to science are used by auto makers as crash-test dummies

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69D6X TIL that the writings of the Roman doctor Galen accounts for one-eighth of all classical Greek literature that survives
mBMO TIL that after Alexander Hamilton’s death, Eliza Hamilton created the first orphanage, to commemorate Alexander (since he was an orphan)
9xdm TIL that in the state of California (and many others), it’s legal for police officers to kill somebody just for resisting the ‘execution of some legal process'—which means you don’t even have to be resisting arrest for the police to kill you in a 'justifiable homicide.’
b6J47 TIL: Yankee Stadium once had three bronze plaques mounted on blocks of granite commemorating Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Miller Huggins sitting just in front of a flagpole with the US flag in center field - in the field of play.
vP1d8 TIL 'Ballooning' spiders are able to take off and fly through the air, without wind, by using a single line of web ejected into the air to propel them up the naturally generated electric fields in our atmosphere