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TIL Police SWAT sniper Mike Plumb managed to shoot a revolver out of a suicidal person’s hand.

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QNrLL TIL Hitler so detested modern art that he ordered Goebbels to open a "degenerate art" gallery of works seized by the SA to show the German people what he was "saving" them from. The concept backfired, and Goebbels had to go to great lengths to discourage the pieces from being admired by guests.
1aOrP TIL Finland has planted 150 million trees per year for decades. For a small nation of 5½ million people that means 27 trees per person. If the entire European Union were to do the same, there would be nearly 14 billion trees planted every year in the EU.
N7Vo6 TIL Divorce in Ireland was only legalised in 1995 after a referendum. The margin of victory was 0.56%
1ZM7 TIL that scientist have produced glow in the dark cats, as a part of AIDS research
7r0DZ TIL that Richard Pryor was Ludacris’ cousin