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TIL There is no systematic reporting of violence committed by the police in the US.

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DPxr TIL that liquid breathing (such as in the movie abyss) is true and can be used when diving or as a type of medical treatment
4XjJa TIL that the March of Dimes charity was founded in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help fight polio, and became such a success that the dime itself was redesigned in 1946 to honor him.
PByJ TIL international flights carrying the Pope use the callsign “Shepherd One”
0QGv TIL Mall of America is owned by Canadians
rXDe TIL that color-blindness in humans happens when a person has two visual processing cones instead of the usual three. There is a flipside, that there are people who have a condition known as Tetrachromacy, where someone has four cones, potentially allowing them to see more of the visible spectrum.