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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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R79Pl TIL that a CEO during the 2008 recession instead of laying off some employees, furloughed all them for a few weeks: “it’s better for us all to suffer a little than for some to suffer a lot.”
99WB TIL Tin Foil Hats actually amplify, not protect one’s brain from radio waves.
WkMLX TIL that the first ever science fiction novel, 'A True Story' was written in the second century AD. The novel includes travel to the outer space, flying to the Moon, alien lifeforms, interplanetary warfare and continents across the ocean.
WkGWY TIL: During a renovation of the Tower of London the skeletons of two children were found hidden beneath a staircase. They were identified as the remains of two princes who had gone missing 191 years before.
WkNOB TIL Wagner-Jauregg (1927) managed to cure syphilis by infecting the patient with malaria. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.