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TIL: Sadly, children in their first year of life (infants aged less than 1 year) are a massive 15% of all child abuse cases

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Z84mR TIL about Air New Zealand flight 901, which provided sightseeing flyovers of Antarctica until it crashed into the side of Mount Erebus in November 1979. Most of the wreckage is still there, and can periodically be seen during warmer weather.
wvX7 TIL Pixar originally rendered “Finding Nemo” at a resolution of only 1600x900, and later re-renders of the film have minor animation differences due to the use of random seed numbers
MeOBA TIL: In 2000, after a 25 hour siege, Irish police shot and killed a man who had fired on them several times. Following massive public outcry, they requested the FBI send a team to review their handling of the situation. The FBI concluded the main problem was that they did not shoot the man sooner.
M8oB TIL that Noodles, the guitarist for The Offspring, was a custodian at the school the band went to. He was allowed into the band because he was old enough to buy alcohol.
QN74d TIL the Bureau of Reclamation maintains a quick-reaction police force for the three dams the Bureau manages.