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TIL the red juices from steak isn’t blood, it’s myoglobin

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JYWXB TIL Ginggaew Lorsoungnern, a Thai convict executed by firing squad, was discovered to have a rare condition called Situs Inversus (internal organs reversed) after she was shot in the left side of her chest and survived. After waking up in the morgue she was taken back and executed.
Z87Z4 TIL that in Sweden you have a constitutional right to allemansrätten, which is the right to peacefully hike, camp, bike and enjoy nature anywhere in the country unimpeded, with the only restriction being very close to someone’s house or if you mess up a garden.
kGyE TIL Jimmy Carter was the only President to have ever lived in public housing. His father died shortly after Carter had led a team disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor, so he went home to run the family farm. A drought killed his first crop and drove him into debt…but eventually he made it.
j61KN TIL The Mummy (1999) helped Universal studios gross over one billion dollars in home video sales
GA71N TIL in July 2014, former military leader of Panama, Manuel Noriega, filed a lawsuit against Activision for allegedly portraying him in Call of Duty: Black Ops II for depicting him and using his name without his consent. The lawsuit was dismissed on October 28, 2014.