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TIL the FBI keeps detailed murder statistics based on race, gender, weapons and even the motive but they do not maintain statistics on killings by police or government agencies

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d8by8 TIL Two years before James Brady was seriously wounded during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, he served as a press secretary to John Connally, who was seriously wounded during the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Yp0DA TIL the writer of the live action Dragon Ball film apologized for how bad it was
EgD5P TIL there’s a Japanese schoolyard song about Tanuki’s testicles swinging freely, even without wind. Also learned the legendary Tanuki has 8 special traits; one of them being an oversized scrotum that symbolizes financial luck. Bit disappointed this wasn’t incorporated in Tanooki Mario.
NX0nM TIL pineapples grow in bushes, not on trees.
gMkwy TIL of the worst NY disaster prior to 9/11, the steamer Slocum in 1904. 1200 mostly women and children died. It wiped out the early German population of NYC.