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b0m4 TIL I learned that only 5% of British police are authorised to use firearms. A 2006 survey of 47,328 Police Federation members found 82% did not want officers to be routinely armed on duty, despite almost half saying their lives had been “in serious jeopardy” during the previous three years.
EG6W TIL Dinosaurs were neither warm nor cold-blooded, instead “mesothermic” or in between
XGmr TIL in 1962 the US Government proposed Operation Northwoods, a plan to commit acts of ‘false flag’ terrorism on American soil, for which Cuba would be blamed, in an effort to gain public support for a US invasion of Cuba. The plan was rejected by the Kennedy Administration
yQ0KJ TIL Quokka mothers have spare babies in their womb in a suspended state of development as back-up in case tragedy befalls the older joey, such as the mum using it as a decoy to escape a predator
Z85vB TIL that whenever we look at the night sky we are looking at our past , most of the stars we see are not really there ,they are long gone but because of the distance the light takes a long time to travel that it still shows its past state.