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TIL Coroners in the U.S. are elected officials, require little to no training in most districts, and may overule a forensic pathologist in naming a cause of death.

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v1LrR TIL that engineers at IBM had to hand weave their memory 14KB in total for both control and redundancy of their flight computer in the SATURN V launch vehicle. Wire shaped inside the mesh represented a bit based on the magnetic field generated by the direction of current flowing through it.
x0a0 TIL: A 4 year old searching for fossils found 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bones
v6g7 TIL over 2 million women were raped by the Russian Army after the fall of Nazi Germany.
W7RZo TIL that the typical tax evader in the U.S. is a male under the age of 50 in a high tax bracket and with a complicated return, and the most common means of tax evasion is the overstatement of charitable contributions, particularly church donations.
V5Xp TIL NY Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor would routinely send prostitutes to his opponents’ hotel rooms the night before a game in an attempt to tire them out.