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TIL that “Shots to roughly 80 percent of targets on the body would not be fatal blows” and that “if a gunshot victim’s heart is still beating upon arrival at a hospital, there is a 95 percent chance of survival”

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OWv1 TIL that in Crystal Palace Park, London, are the oldest-known dinosaur sculptures, based entirely off fossil findings discovered in the 1850’s. They are very inaccurate.
neXko TIL that the band Joy Division is named after the group of jewish inmates in concentration camps, that had to fulfill sexual demands of the guards
rRXye TIL that the US also had concentration camps like germany during WW2 for Japanese Americans and so called Aleuts. They were forced to live in barely humane conditions in cramped shacks without plumbing or cooking facilities, while they also burned down some of the villages of the imprisioned.
PY7PO TIL New Zealand’s biggest export sector is its agriculture but its farmers, unlike US and EU farmers, receive zero government subsidies.
AMK4 TIL that there is a specific order to adjectives in English. This is why we say ‘big red teapot’ and not 'red big teapot.’