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TIL that a black police officer faced charges for not investigating racial taunts against himself.

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VAQm TIL that the serial killer Joseph Duncan had a Blog before he was jailed where you can clearly see his descent into madness.
JYXZV TIL that "paradise" is a word derived from a proto-Iranian word that meant "walled enclosure"
l77La TIL nearly 4 million chickens, 726,000 pigs, and 29,000 cattle die in transport every year – just in the U.S.
wLjpE TIL 80% of males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II.
lxGr TIL the grip of a sloth is so strong that sometimes when they die, they are found still clinging to the very branch they were lounging from when they were alive