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TIL that many police officers maintain that the most realistic police show in the history of television was the sitcom Barney Miller.

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7Xjb TIL the famous ‘risky selfie girl’, Russian girl Xenia Ignatyeva, who used to take selfies on top of high buildings and in other dangerous places with her boyfriend, actually died doing this. In 2014, she fell off a roof and landed on a live cable and got electrocuted to death.
BrXbd TIL of Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer, a Dutch woman who saved 10,000 Jewish children by charming and bribing Dutch train workers and German officers including a young Adolf Eichmann. Research suggests she saved more Jewish lives than all but Raoul Wallenberg.
v1NY4 TIL a retired American heart and lung surgeon has patented a scuba suit that would allow a human to breathe “liquid air”, like in the movie The Abyss. He has simulated 1000 foot dives with mammals and has decompressed them in less than half a second with no decompression sickness.
1ogW TIL The Original Illuminati was an Enlightenment-era secret society in Bavaria created on May 1st 1776, The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.
DKMg TIL a Narwhals tusk is actually it’s left tooth which breaks through its lip. It is soft, and covered with small holes that fill with water and basically make the tusk a sensory organ, like a nose or ears.