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TIL During a 12 month trial of police wearing video cameras in Rialto, CA the use of force dropped by 60% and complaints against officers dropped by 88%

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GYe5G TIL in 2009, police in San Jose, California engaged in a 17-hour standoff with an empty house.
1aRGW TIL That in the Ukrainian language, the word Chernobyl: "чорнобиль" means wormwood. In the Book of Revelation, Wormwood is the fallen star that poisons the waters of the earth.
OvBY TIL Lightning serves an important role in the nitrogen cycle by oxidizing diatomic nitrogen in the air into nitrates which are deposited by rain and can fertilize the growth of plants and other organisms.
R5W18 TIL We have at least a 50/50 chance, if we could travel there today, of finding at least some form of primitive life on a planet (K2-18B) that is 124 lightyears away given markers in the atmosphere, JWST observations, and the chemical and physical parameters of the planet in relation to it's star.