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TIL the Bureau of Reclamation maintains a quick-reaction police force for the three dams the Bureau manages.

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xwD7 TIL each agency of the US government has put a price on a human life. As of 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency set the value of a human life at $9.1 million. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration put it at $7.9 million — and the Department of Transportation figure was around $6 million.
vPyoR TIL Pong was the first game created by Atari and was meant to be a warm up exercise for a new employee
8aX9L TIL Malcolm X said that white people could not join his black nationalist Organization of Afro-American Unity, but "if John Brown were still alive, we might accept him." Brown was a famous abolitionist convicted and hanged for treason after attempting to lead a slave rebellion in 1859.
Jkx1 TIL an Aboriginal man planted a flag on the cliffs of Dover in 1988 and claimed England for the Aborigines
e005 TIL that in 1967, German lab workers working with Ugandan monkeys came down with an illness. They then documented their own illness, and eventually they isolated the virus.