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TIL that NYC Police Officers were formally accused of using an illegal chokehold during an arrest 1,048 times from January 1, 2009 to June 30, 2014 … that’s two complaints filed every three days

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j6RaX TIL The radiomessage PAN-PAN is the international standard urgency signal that someone aboard a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle uses to declare that they need help and that the situation is urgent, but does not pose an immediate danger to the vessel or anyone's life
9YgKp TIL The sun is not yellow, it’s white. Rayleigh scattering both makes the sky appear blue and the sun appear yellow by scattering the suns rays.
epd0b TIL there is a common misperception that a landmine is armed by stepping on it and only triggered by stepping off, providing tension in movies. In fact the initial pressure trigger will detonate the mine immediately.
0ALM TIL Mr. Rogers personally molded the 100 Billionth crayon at Crayola
VBR58 TIL that stock market operators are nothing but the stock exchanges, brokerage firms and big financial institutions which makes retail investors trap