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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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NE4P TIL Anthropologists believe cats approached humans on their own terms 12,000 years ago. The first agricultural societies stored food that attracted mice, the cats decreased the rodent population by eating them, and a mutual relationship began.
lJo5 TIL Legendary daredevil Evel Knievel got his stagename from a prison guard. The man in the next cell was named “Knofel” and the guard started calling them “Awful Knofel” and “Evil Knievel”.
78QYr TIL certain anti-Depression medications had to be labeled with “suicidal thoughts” after kids, teens, and young adults who were taking these medications had motivation to harm themselves after taking them.
Xl5j TIL Scientist John All fell into a 70-foot deep crevasse in Nepal. He broke 15 bones and was bleeding internally but miraculously survived and was able to document his climb out.
oBwJr TIL that by mass, polonium-210 is nearly 250,000 times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide