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nRAY TIL That due to poor accounting practices and software, the Department of Defense loses billions of dollars on financial transactions between federal agencies.
yVBQJ TIL that the author of The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling, is the same person that wrote the poem "Boots" used in the trailer for 28 Years Later.
YZwv TIL that police in Belfast, Northern Ireland used music from ice cream van to calm angry teen rioters.
PYL9n TIL rapper Bizzy Bone, who was abducted by his step-father as a child, was reunited with his mother after a neighbor recognized a photo of him shown at the end of the 1983 broadcast of the TV movie ‘Adam’ which was based on the abduction and murder of America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh’s son.
ep6N4 TIL the FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform) is an ocean research vessel that can flip from horizontal to a 90° vertical floating position like a buoy. When vertical it's imperviable to wave motion and can withstand 80ft swells.