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TIL - Two French officers dueled each other 30 times over the course of 19 years

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R6N1 TIL The NYPD Created It’s Own Intelligence Agency After 9/11 and Currently has Officers embed in 13 Oversea Cities
N7ldM TIL that under the British Rule, the Queen is a higher value playing card than the King, as the value of the cards changes dependent upon the sex of the current monarch.
wBY1 TIL that in 1949, a member of the New Zealand parliament was deemed to have used “unparliamentary language” for saying of another member that “his brains could revolve inside a peanut shell for a thousand years without touching the sides.”
WoXA TIL Pies were named in the Middle Ages after their most common ingredient, magpie.
LR7p TIL in 1982 Key West seceded from the US as a protest against their actions. Then they declared war and surrendered after 1 minute, but in 1995 they attacked the US by firing water cannons from fireboats and hitting people with stale Cuban bread. They are today known as the “Conch Republic.”