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TIL Police Chief Daryl Gates, creator of DARE, said “casual drug users ought to be taken out and shot”

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R7Z49 TIL That Lego produced 318 million tires in 2011, making them the world's largest tire manufacturer by number of units produced.
4XQaw TIL John Wayne did a commercial for Australian shoe company Grosby's when he was in Australia for an award show. He only took a small fee as he was impressed that the small ad agency representing them had actually asked him.
xVDPB TIL some humans have what's called "Cute Aggression". Meaning when you see something cute, you get the overwhelming feeling of needing to hurt that cute baby or animal.
ADp5w TIL The Navajo language is the most spoken Native American language today, with nearly 170,000 speakers. The next most common is Yupik, at 19,750, which is spoken in Alaska
l7J47 TIL female Crocodiles can produce offspring asexually, without the need for fertilisation from a male