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TIL no Los Angeles police officers have died in the line of duty in almost 4 years

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AN5kw TIL that Skatole, the main odorant responsible for the smell of human feces, is used in low concentrations as a perfume. It apparently smells like orange jasmine and ripe fruits.
E198P TIL: Pilots of the SR-71 Blackbird were often tasked to fly over heads of state triggering a shockwave to remind countries what they were doing was against US policy
6OeW TIL in 1925 an all-black baseball team in Wichita, Kansas played an exhibition against a local KKK Klavern, with Irish Catholics serving as umpires. The black team won 10-8.
nWeQG TIL that there is a term related to the art of hotel toilet paper folding called “toilegami”. The reason for this hotel practice: “Hotels want to give their guests…confidence that the bathroom has been cleaned (so) the maid will fold over the last piece of toilet paper. It is subtle but effective”
Yoy7 TIL Salvador Dali would avoid paying his tabs by drawing on the checks he wrote, making the checks a valuable piece of art.