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TIL that Guy Bradley, America's first game warden and reformed poacher, worked independently to increase the population of white egrets on Pelican Island, the worlds first wildlife refuge, before being killed by a poacher while investigating gunshots at his waterfront home.
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TIL that on September 11th, 2001, Officer John Perry of the NYPD went to headquarters to file retirement paperwork. When he heard the explosion at the world trade center he immediately responded and was later killed when one of the towers collapsed. He was the only off-duty officer killed on 9/11.
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TIL that the US Postal Inspection Service has a list of members who have died in the line of duty. Half of them have the cause of death listed as “Gunfire”.