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TIL: Several studies in the US have found that domestic violence is significantly more common in the families of police officers than in other families

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P1ne TIL: Audio cassette data storage was once so popular in some countries that radio stations would broadcast computer programs that listeners could record and then load into their computer.
jNZMn TIL the story of "Canuck the Crow", an infamous bird in Vancouver Canada known for stealing a knife from a crime scene, breaking into a McDonalds, chasing the mail man, and is still being tracked and swooping people to this day.
4kMOb TIL: LaserDiscs were first marketed and sold in 1978 — and they were originally called DiscoVision! 🪩🕺🏼
X0DDj TIL during the Apollo 16 lunar mission in 1972, the crew brought a lunar rock first collected by Apollo 12 in 1969 BACK to the moon as part of a magnetic field experiment. The rock ended up travelling back and forth between moon and Earth twice.
xV5dD TIL approximately 10 percent of the internet is kept secure using a wall full of lava lamps