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TIL the Danish police resisted Nazi command so fiercely that 1,960 of its 10,000 police members were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Faced with Nazi demands, the Danish police administration was inclined to accepted them, but the Police organizations refused, leading to the deportations.

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VMax4 TIL about James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' was cartoonist in New Yorker who got injured on one eye in childhood and lost vision from the other eye too. But he started seeing hallucinations and it is believed, they were the source of most of his illustrations.
9wx6D TIL that there are more number of countries in the world where females outnumber males than where males outnumber females (for the total population).
7redL TIL the Carménère grape was considered extinct. That was until 1994 when a oenologist went to Chile and discovered that the Merlot he was tasting was, in fact, Carménère. Turns out the grape was accidentally planted and preserved when it was mistaken for Merlot.
B9wL TIL that billionaire Howard Hughes bought a casino for the sole purpose of moving its trademark neon silver slipper. Visible from Hughes’ bedroom, it had apparently kept him awake at night.
N7KKJ TIL Eric Idle, of Monty Python, wrote a science fiction novel about a robot trying to understand human comedy.