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TIL the Jamaica’s police force is among the deadliest in the world

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6EEDw TIL scientists use sunflowers to clean up nuclear radiation
0dEbj TIL Kaninhoppning (lit. Bunny Hopping) Is the Rabbit Version of Show Jumping
OoayX TIL Of Leo Ryan, a congressman who was sent to investigate Jonestown who was murdered on orders of Jim Jones, along with an NBC news crew shortly before the infamous mass suicide
ne7yB TIL 97% of French Cognac is exported to the USA, where the majority of consumers are African-American. WWII soldiers stationed in France returned to America with a taste for it - and by the 50s, Cognac companies marketed directly to the Black middle and upper classes through Jet and Ebony magazine.
yQbbv TIL of the General delegation for the French language and languages of France (aka the French Language Police) whose job is to research emerging English words and come up with French equivalents to keep the language alive.