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TIL Adrian Schoolcraft, and NYPD officer, was arrested, involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility, and fired in 2006 for exposing corruption in NYPD

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JQBQ TIL In the days immediately before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US military air-dropped millions of leaflets into 33 different Japanese cities, warning that some or all of these cities would be bombed within the next few days, and instructed them to evacuate immediately.
X0o0k TIL that Roman gladiators were overweight (NOT muscle-bound) and ate mostly vegetarian diets
J1oem TIL that 'Evolutionary Musicology' suggests the human brain was tuned to sound/rhythm long before it developed language — which seems to explain why music affects our emotions so directly.
DQG5J TIL cows have best friends and get stressed when separated from them. Studies have shown that cows form strong social bonds and show signs of stress when separated from their “best friends”.
kJjP4 TIL that when an Italian film called “The Miracle” was released in the U.S in Dec. 1950 that it led to so much religious controversy that the issue went directly to a 1951 Supreme Court Case ruling that finally declared the legal precedent of 1st and 14th Amendments protection for film.