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TIL in 2011 German Police fired 85 bullets all year while US Police used 90 on one single person

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GYRn4 TIL that Bertha Benz became the first person to drive a car over more than a short distance when she took her husband's new invention without his knowledge and drove up to her mother's house to prove that the invention will be successful once it's shown to be useful
VBM5Q TIL about megaesophagus, a disorder in dogs that often necessitates them eating from a high chair.
5VOjR TIL: Stalin blocked attempts to kill Hitler twice, fearing that his replacement might make peace with the western allies
rEn1 TIL MTV contacted Weird Al and told him they would not air his “Don’t Download This Song” video if references to filesharing programs were not in some way removed, so he “made the creative decision to bleep them out as obnoxiously as possible, so that there would be no mistake I was being censored.”
6Er07 TIL a man known only as "Django" drove his own boat out & freed a whale caught in a shark net off an Australian beach (without cutting the net). Before taking action, Django had waited hours for help from officials who had been called; when officials arrived, he faced a fine for acting alone.