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TIL after the police chief in a small New Mexico city stepped down, the only certified member of the police department was a drug sniffing dog named Nikka

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VLgm TIL that the FCC requires that every user be warned to never carry or use a cell phone closer than 15mm (5/8 inch) to the body or risk being exposed to radio frequency levels that exceed safe limits of nonionizing radiation.
R7pn8 TIL that a mule was found to be alive after being trapped in a coal mine for over a month following a massive landslide. Charlie the horse survived by eating bark from timber supports and drinking from puddles, only to die shortly after his rescue when his rescuers overfed him on oats and brandy.
4kJ8J TIL "late capitalism" was coined by Werner Sombart, a Marxist economist who later became a strong supporter of Hitler's National Socialism as the successor to late capitalism
Gr57 TIL that the Japanese have the world’s most negative opinion of the Chinese, and vice versa
QNale TIL Scientology targeted organizers of the 2008 Anonymous protests using Fair Game tactics of "Noisy Investigations" by PIs and killing pets of participants