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TIL the NYPD has more officers than 45 states combined and even outpace the numbers of the actual Belgian military itself

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MexkB TIL Jailed Nixon advisers John Ehrlichman and JR Haldeman were both Christian Scientists and they inserted language exempting "prayer is the only cure" parents from the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.
KYM1E TIL during a test of the accuracy of dog DNA tests, a man submitted his own human DNA, and got results back with dog breeds they suspected the DNA being from
oRYYL TIL: The Army developed a weapon concept after being inspired by a Pokémon episode in 1998. The weapon was designed to produce large scale seizures with a range of hundreds of meters. It can incapacitate people for up to 5 minutes. The Pokémon episode that inspired it caused 700 seizures.
p87wZ TIL the last 2 Afghan Jews lived on opposite sides of Kabul's synagogue, both claimed ownership of the space, refused to leave fearing the other would sell it. The two fought so much over the synagogue's Torah (bible) scroll that, after each called Taliban on the other, the Taliban confiscated it.
p8j7N TIL Cuba had dozens of double agents within the CIA for decades. This was not discovered until a Cuban spy defected to the US in 1987 and started naming names.