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TIL; There were no women special agents in the FBI from 1928 to 1972, as J Edgar Hoover banned the recruitment of women in 1924 and eased out the 3 women agents serving at that time

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GApP4 TIL that NBA legend Paul Pierce was stabbed 11 times in 2000 and still played every single game of the 2000-01 season
OLK1 TIL there is a Royal Marine sniper that has 173 confirmed kills, 90 of them coming from a single day in Afganistan.
DjJV TIL the common banana doesn’t have seeds because it has 3 copies of DNA. An odd number doesn’t split evenly when forming progeny, so the result is a seedless fruit. Seedless watermelon, grapes, etc also have an odd number of copies of DNA.
9YWym TIL that the dreams of still being in school, failing a test and similar school related dreams are among the top 10 for people of any age worldwide.
OoX5e Today I learned that the term used in RFID gen2 standard is "tags" and "Interrogators"