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TIL that the Blue Code of Silence is an unwritten rule among police officers in the United States not to report on another colleague’s errors, misconducts, or crimes.

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l7NEB TIL of Operation Paul Bunyan. A retaliatory against North Korea for the murder of 2 UN command officers. With 813 armed infantry, 27 helicopters, B52 stratofortress, fighter planes, a carrier strike group, and a chainsaw. US forces successfully cut down a poplar tree and the mission was a success.
vBVK TIL branched alkane Tetraethylmethane is also called Nazinonane.
vlQx TIL that when Genghis Khan’s eldest son Juchi died while hunting, his subordinates, fearing punishment for bringing bad news, forced a musician to do it. The musician performed a melody, Genghis Khan understood the message, and “punished” the instrument by pouring molten lead on it
4e65 TIL Bahia Bakari, a 12 year old French girl, was the sole survivor of an Airbus A310 crash near Comoros that killed 152 people. She could barely swim and had no life vest, but clung to a piece of aircraft wreckage for over 9 hours before being rescued.
neAbY TIL 12 years British PM William Gladstone loved chopping trees down with axes. 1,000s would gather to watch him, and he was still felling in his mid 80s.