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TIL that before modern safety regulations, the rule of thumb was that one person would die per $1M spent on a construction project

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VMXk8 TIL the job of police officer isn't even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the USA, with a population of 379 million only 1 million people work in law enforcement in the USA, and according to FBI in 2016 only 118 officers died in the line of duty of which 52 were accidental and 66 were felonious.
yVODV TIL the derby between LA Galaxy and LAFC is nicknamed 'El Tráfico' due to the large amount of traffic in LA while also serving as a pun on 'El Clásico'
xbP0 TIL North Korea has enormous deposits of rare earth metals
4X8Ba TIL the Chernobyl disaster released approximately 400 times more radioactive fallout than that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
vPyJx TIL Founder's Hall, a $4 million museum devoted to telling the story of Canada’s birth, located blocks away from the site of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, shut down due to lack of interest. Visitors dropped from 40,000 a year in 2001 to 13,000 in 2015