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

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YZPx TIL that during the Kosovo War (1998-99) as many as 300 people were abducted and killed for an international organ harvesting and trafficking network.
GOV7 TIL that in WW2 English spies planned to make Hitler less aggressive by feeding him oestrogen, the female sex hormone. It would go unnoticed by his food testers because it was slow and subtle. The English spies were already close enough to Hitler to execute the plan, but it never went through.
W7X1d TIL The first US cross country road trip was by Jacob Murdock in 1908 it took 32 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes.
x6pPD TIL that voice navigation with numbered streets can’t tell the difference between a wide array of street addresses because they sound identical.
MErV TIL Cats sleep an average of 2/3 of their life. This would mean a 9 year old cat has been awake for 3 years.