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TIL that Target Corporation runs 2 state of the art criminal forensics labs.

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Y7VYW TIL in the US, a private company can prosecute and incarcerate you themselves if they have enough money.
oBKeY TIL of Krista and Tatiana Hogan, conjoined twins with a rare thalamic bridge, allowing them to share thoughts and feelings via a natural neural link.
0dGoj TIL about Ken Saro Wiwa, an activist and writer who protested against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland in Nigeria at the hands of the petroleum industry, especially the Royal Dutch Shell company. Shell is accused of being complicit in his arrest and subsequent execution.
QZkE TIL that while filming Rocky IV, Sylvester Stallone asked Dolph Lundgren to try to knock him out for real. Lundgren hit him so hard that he was sent to the hospital and was in the ICU for 9 days.
nj6r TIL in 1998, two tanker trains, one of which was transporting fuel oil, collided and derailed in Cameroon. As locals started to scavenge the fuel in an assortment of containers, a smoker among them threw down a lit cigarette. At least 200 people were killed in the resulting flash-fire.