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TIL that Teargas, both pepper-spray and CS gas, are listed as chemical weapons and their use by the military is considered a war crime.

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7bYM TIL Teddy Roosevelt said: “I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feeble-minded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them.”
KYwNQ TIL Vanilla Ice bought the royalties for "Under Pressure" to end the lawsuit over "Ice Ice Baby" which had sampled the bass line.
YwRr TIL Processed meat has been classified as a ‘definite’ cause of cancer (or Group 1 carcinogen) – the same group that includes smoking and alcohol because the “IARC isn’t in the business of telling us how potent something is in causing cancer – only whether it does so or not”.
oBQe7 TIL That the first life on earth was not bacteria or eukaryotes but something called LUCA that came around 4 billion years ago. It was the ultimate ancestor of every gene of every bit of life on earth.
e06l5 TIL Juan Catalan Spent nearly 6 months in jail for the murder of a teenage girl until his lawyer found unused footage from HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' that proved he had been at a Dodger's game with his 6 years old daughter.