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TIL that the Police Service of Northern Ireland was almost given the acronym of NIPS

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OKDY TIL one of the three people who died in the crash of Asiana Flight 214 was actually killed when they were run over by a responding fire truck
6EEj7 Conrad Heyer, a Revolutionary War veteran, was the earliest-born American to ever be photographed and he was photographed in 1852 at the age of 103! He’s also “the only U.S. veteran to be photographed who crossed the Delaware River alongside George Washington in December 1776”.
xjAB TIL That ants wage war in remarkably similar way to humans.
yVZOJ TIL that the formal name for baby teeth in mammals is "deciduous" teeth, the same word used to refer to trees who uniformly shed and regrow their leaves.
vPj5D TIL according to international space law, space is defined as common heritage of humanity, which makes territorial claims in space prohibited. The main purposes of this law are to prevent colonial claims and militarization of space.