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TIL that throughout the duration of HBO’s The Wire, police only fire their weapons three times. All three times it’s the same officer.

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k68d TIL–As Zelda Fitzgerald, Author F.Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, emerged from the anesthesia after giving birth, Scott recorded Zelda saying, “I hope it’s beautiful and a fool—a beautiful little fool.” This was a line later used for Daisy Buchanan within the Great Gatsby.
mxEGo TIL Julius Caesar would personally conduct espionage on his enemies. Once, he even dressed up as a Gaul and snuck behind enemy lines. When his soldiers failed to sneak him back, he boarded a Gaul ship blockading the Romans and sailed back into Roman territory without anyone noticing.
epWgJ TIL While Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin was lugging heavy objects on the Moon, flight surgeons noticed an irregularity in his heart rate and realized he had bigeminy. His heart condition eventually killed him 20 years later.
kOVpW TIL Electrolysed water will kill spores and many viruses and bacteria and costs less than a penny per gallon. Turns out zapping salt water with low-voltage electricity creates a couple of powerful yet nontoxic cleaning agents.
OGMyR TIL Astronomer Rudolf Wolf observed sunspots through a telescope for 46 years from 1847 and managed to reconstruct historical records back to 1610. His sunspot number monitoring work continued at the Zürich Observatory until 1979