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TIL the Australian Federal Police's origins are traced back to a Prime Minister being struck by a thrown egg and his unhappiness with the state police response

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vEbR TIL As a child, Stephen King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event.
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