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TIL about The Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, an elite Danish naval unit that conducts long-range reconnaissance patrolling, and enforces Danish sovereignty in the Arctic wilderness of northern and eastern Greenland.

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Y7GAr TIL that people who have been strangled by their partner are at a 750% to 1000% increased risk of being murdered. Strangulation is a significant indicator of potential homicide and causes severe and lasting damage, including brain damage and memory loss
6957W TIL: There is a system of units, Planck Units, for length, mass, time, and temperature based universal physical constants, such as the speed of light, rather than a choice of prototype object. It is mostly used in quantum mechanics.
yQQYV Exactly today (Dec. 26th, 2016) I haven’t had a single drop of alcohol or coffee in 27 months. If you're reading this later, you can do the math yourself. A couple of my friends on Facebook & Twitter asked me to write about my experience, so here it is, in a nutshell.
mxeYY TIL about Yellapragada Subbarow who discovered that ATP is the source of energy of the cell was refused tenure at Harvard because he was an Indian
QZa9 TIL that, adjusted for inflation, Afghanistan has sucked in more money than was spent stabilising all of Europe under the Marshall Plan after WWII