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

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PYxrJ TIL that Finnish people recycle over 90% of their cans and bottles. This is because they get part of their money back from the cost of the product.
yQ6Ze TIL there are wasps that make honey, called Mexican Honey Wasps.
MeEA8 TIL, that the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer. A 21 year old actress who was shot at her front door by an obsessed fan and later died enacted the Nation’s first anti-stalking Law’s in 1990. In 1994, the ‘Driver’s Privacy Protection Act’ made it illegal to release people’s private addresses.
GYo9j TIL that Jedediah Smith, an explorer of the American West, survived a bear attack. The animal had smashed his ribs, torn off his scalp, and chewed one of his ears off. He calmly told a friend to sew his scalp and severed ear back on. After 10 days, he was again leading his expedition.
JYEO1 TIL Hawaiian Pizza was invented in Ontario, Canada in 1962