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TIL many coroners aren't doctors and they can be appointed or elected to their positions

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KpWB TIL that Russia has a monument to laboratory mice, to celebrate their contribution to science
D1rbe TIL of Susan Butcher, a New England girl whose only goal in life was to win the Alaskan Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race which she ultimately won 4 times with record times and became one the greatest mushers of all time
Z8ppv TIL of a woman who tricked her girlfriend into sex by pretending to be a man. She was jailed for 6.5 years for using a fake penis on her partner.
xVbYB TIL that the FBI spent years investigating an anti-goth club that didn’t even exist. After a worried goth contacted the FBI, the Bureau launched an official investigation which lasted over 2 years before they realised the whole thing was a joke.
9YZbr TIL in 1983, the American Association of Blood Banks was told by the CDC that their blood supply was infecting people with the AIDs virus, but they refused to screen the supply due to cost concerns.