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TIL that the Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard) have their own catering support unit for prolonged incidents called TEAPOT1

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x6BJ1 TIL Of the ten most watched Youtube videos, five are children's videos and five are pop song videos. Of the top thirty Youtube videos only one is not a children's or pop song video, it is a Hindu devotional song about the celibate deity called Hanuman
rRVd0 TIL about Rose Fortune, the first female police officer in Canada and a Black Loyalist
Wk66X TIL that there is a Jewish myth about a giant lion called Tigris. The lion had a head 21 feet (9 cubits) wide. In the myth, Tigris roared, women within 2200 kilometers miscarried and a city was destroyed. Tigris roared a second time and the teeth of the men looking for Tigris fell out
6ElZX TIL that Kobe Bryant is the only person to have won both an Olympic Medal and an Oscar
VvPk TIL that a man quit his job to test a theory that if you deliberately practice something for 10,000 hours you can become an overachiever in any field. He is now a 4 handicap and 3 off becoming a PGA Tour Professional Golfer, having never played prior to this project.