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TIL: UNTIL 2013, THE US NAVY SENT MESSAGES IN ALL CAPS
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TIL Texas no longer offers a special “last meal” to condemned inmates. Instead, the inmate is offered the same meal served to the rest of the unit.
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TIL bulletproof glass can be manufactured to be bulletproof one way, but allow you to shoot through it the other way.
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TIL that Galveston, Texas was ruled by French pirates between 1816 and 1821
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TIL that blanks in a gun can kill. Jon-Erik Hexum was an actor who accidentally killed himself with a blank gun. Later his transplanted heart saved the life of a Las Vegas pimp.
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TIL Some sharks can reproduce asexually through parthenogenesis. Parthenogenesis is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which development of an embryo from an unfertilized egg.