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TIL Police kill 8x more American Citizens than Terrorists

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Z8RVa TIL Of Orion P. Howe, a 14-year old drummer boy who received the Medal of Honor during the Civil War for volunteering to supply ammunition under heavy fire. He experienced 14 battles, and after the war he joined the Naval Academy because he was still too young for West Point.
pO4Q TIL TBS increased the speed of Seinfeld reruns by 7.5% to get an extra two minutes of advertisement
KPeJ TIL, In 2001, A man was shot dead while testing a bulletproof potion. He’d asked a witchdoctor to make him invincible to bullets. After applying a potion for two weeks, a fellow villager shot him to check if it worked. He died instantly
yVBmp TIL about aaa, a constellation of urological problems described on multiple ancient Egyptian medical papyri. Many archaeologists believe aaa was what is now known as urinary schistosomiasis, a parasitic infection.
b7V0 TIL Neil Young once wired up his house to be the left speaker and the barn as his right speaker so that he could listen to music from a boat in the middle of his lake.