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

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YVyB TIL that adrenaline addicts in France can buy a basic kidnap package where they’re bundled away, bound and gagged, and kept incarcerated for four hours. Clients have no idea when the kidnappers will strike in order to maximize the surprise.
x6Vr7 TIL about a super modern €1.4bn nuclear power plant in Austria that never went into service, because a 50.47% majority in a referendum voted against it.. after it was built.
jNA0R TIL tennis player Arthur Ashe was offered “Honorary White” status in South Africa during apartheid but he refused and explicitly demanded to be booked as a black man when he visited and played in South Africa.
xnlk TIL that during the 1995 OJ Simpson trial, the ABC, NBC and CBS networks nightly news broadcasts gave more air time to the details of that case than to the Bosnian War and the Oklahoma City bombing combined.
VJ7G TIL in 2001, members of PETA had just left an anti-hunt protest when they hit a deer. They informed the NJ Division of Fish and and Wildlife that they would sue for damages and injuries since it was a result of the deer management program, which included, increasing the deer population.