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TIL that Ozzy Osbourne has survived decades of drug and alcohol abuse because he has several genetic mutations “we’ve never seen before” that help him party hard.

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P1OXe TIL in the US police get as low as 672 hours of training, while New Zealand the next lowest Western country requiring at least 1924 hours of training. And a lot of countries require 4500 hours of training.
ADgro TIL Moken Children have the ability to make their pupils as small as humanly possible, and change the shape of their lens to give them better vision beneath the water....much like dolphins can.
aWbb TIL the man that founded the Backstreet Boys is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for perpetrating one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in American history, cheating investors out of $300 million.
Zpx44 TIL the Imperial Library of Constantinople held thousands of ancient Roman and Greek texts for ~1000 years. Most of the library was lost over time due to war and fires, with the Archimedes Palimpsest a notable survivor
8e188 TIL The Way of Tuna is a plan by Korean cult leader Sun M. Moon to infiltrate the US sushi industry to fund his church: “After we build the boats, we catch the fish and process them for the market, and then have a distribution network. This is not just on the drawing board; I have already done it.”