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TIL that the Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, and the Railroad Retirement Board are among dozens of federal agencies that have SWAT teams.

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PYQnE TIL Sogen Kato was thought to be the oldest man in Tokyo up until it was discovered he had died at the age of 79 in 1978. His family kept his death secret for his pension. This lead to a huge search for all persons over 100 years. Japan couldn't locate 234,354 supposed centenarians.
6PMm TIL on July 30, 1971, the worst air disaster to that date occurred when a Fighter Pilot Trainee collided with a Boeing passenger jet over Japan. All 162 people aboard the jet died, but the fighter pilot ejected before impact and walked away unscathed.
1lxV TIL ExxonMobile, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips are descendant companies of John D. Rockefeller’s oil empire Standard Oil. Rockefeller was worth $237 billion.
yVVNM TIL that while reading your eyes don’t move continuously along a line of text but make short, rapid movements (saccades) intermingled with short stops
G9pN TIL people who are starved appear to have a large abdomen due to water retention as a result of protein deficiency