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TIL The Clarkstown Police Department of NY is one of the highest paid police departments in the country. In 2008, Police Chief Noonan made $374,261.88, and he wasn’t even the highest paid.

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78aPZ TIL burns have been reclassified to superficial, partial thickness, deep partial thickness, and full thickness.
9YGwD TIL about Operation Kitona, when in 1998 Rwandan/Ugandan forces highjacked 4 civilian airliners, flew them to an airbase in western DRC where they amassed 3000 troops, then took over the Inga Dams and cut off power to Kinshasa. Thus began the Second Congo War, second deadliest conflict since WWII.
5YpMk TIL Mature Douglas Fir trees can send sugar to saplings via miles of underground, gossamer-thin mycorrhizal fungi. Birches can loan carbon to fir trees in the summer, while firs pay it back in fall. Trees of different species can share nitrogen leached from salmon leftovers from a bear's lunch.
BgVxK TIL that 1,235 Canadian geese were rounded up and gassed to death after the famous incident of pilot Chesley Sullenberger ditching a passenger plane on the Hudson River with no fatalities, following a bird strike.
Z8RD TIL that Janis Joplin was voted “Ugliest Man On Campus” in 1963