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TIL William Bratton, who popularized the "broken windows theory" to curb crime, is the only person to have led the police departments of the two largest US cities — New York and Los Angeles.

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9YVr TIL that Fox News parent company “News Corp” has historically given more money to democrats than republicans.
E1WAx TIL the "horned sign" is an ancient hand gesture meant to either ward off, or curse someone with, the "evil eye", or malocchio in Italian. Ronnie James Dio re-popularized the gesture as the "sign of the horns" when he joined Black Sabbath in 1979, having originally learned it from his grandmother.
4kKva TIL Adding Sugar to a Car’s Gas Tank is a Myth and does nothing
v1dx TIL MIT researchers developed a one trillion frame per second camera that can capture the path of light
JKjV TIL when Soviet Minister Molotov stated that the cluster bombs being dropped on Finland were actually food, the Finns began sarcastically calling the bombs “Molotov bread baskets,” which they responded to with their own “Molotov cocktails,” as “a drink to go with the food.”