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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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v1eeK TIL there is a program in Indianapolis, Indiana called No One Dies Alone (NODA) where volunteers will stay beside a dying patient who has no one to visit them.
7rdnM TIL about “spreading depolarization”, a scientific phenomena where the human brain continues to emit brain waves after the heart stops, for several minutes even. When Anne Boleyn was beheaded her detached head reportedly tried to talk.
rNwby TIL the upper survival time limit of properly stored seeds remains unknown. The oldest viable seed that has grown into a full plant was an about 2,000 years old Judean date palm seed
oB8E TIL that in 1940, scientists concluded that consumption of ice cream was the leading cause of the polio epidemic, solely based on the stats that there were more cases of polio in the summer, which was also when children ate the most ice cream.
GY5KQ TIL that Mongols used Wicker shields which means the cuisine legend of “mongols grilling meat on their shields” has been debunked by this SCA article.