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

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Dw6P TIL That for $25,000 you can go on a three weeks cruise to the North Pole on the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory
6EZ0l TIL in 1940, a 14 year old Fidel Castro wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking "If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green American, in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green American and I would like to have one of them."
yQJw8 TIL that if you add 250ml of ethanol to 250ml of water, you get less than 500ml of liquid. This is due to strong hydrogen bonding that draws the different molecules close together, and because ethanol interferes with any open structures in the water, causing the molecules to pack closer together.
41Jg TIL Swedish blood donors first recieve a ‘Thank you’ text when they initially donate blood, but they also recieve a text whenever their blood is used to help someone.
6rKX TIL Pineapple contains a substance called bromelain that actually breaks down proteins. If your mouth gets sore after eating pineapple or drinking fresh pineapple juice, it may be because the bromelain started breaking down the proteins that make up your mouth