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TIL skin cancer is more common on the left side in Americans and on the right side in Australians

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epaog TIL that the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina has what's called a "high representative" which is an unelected official chosen by the "Peace Implementation Council" after the Bosnian war. The high representative has the power to remove elected officials from their posts.
AD1kw TIL Chuck E. Cheese was founded by the same guy who co-founded Atari and invented Pong
o1NE TIL: The man that invented the term anorexia nervosa was linked to the unsolved 1888 Whitechapel murders - Jack the Ripper.
VBjvZ TIL the Ministry of Interior in Qatar found video on social media of a car doing donuts in traffic. The car was impounded then then fed into a car crusher machine with a claw excavator.
xGM1 TIL in 1995, convicted killer Daniel Luther Heiss discovered that the key pictured on his prisoners’ information handbook was the masterkey for the whole prison. Fellow inmate Shane Baker, a trained jeweller, replicated it and both escaped.