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TIL that at almost $11 billion, the annual NYPD budget is more than 3 times higher than the entire UN budget of just over $3 billion.

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oYZK TIL that in Soviet Russia, rebellious teenagers who mimicked the Beatles’ hair were arrested and forced to have their hair cut in police stations
ajYN TIL there’s an optical illusion that can detect schizophrenia
795M TIL that in 2013, Bill Gates admitted that the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command was a mistake, and should have been a single button
95Er TIL The end of slavery led to starvation and death for millions of black Americans
javM TIL that the rightful heir to the North Korean ruling dynasty, Kim Jong-nam, has been living in exile in China since 2001 after traveling to Japan on a forged Dominican Republic passport using a Chinese alias, Pang Xiong, which means “fat bear” in Mandarin, in an attempt to visit Tokyo Disneyland