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TIL that with a budget of 11 billion dollars the NYPD would be the 27th highest budgeted military in the world

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ZgLa TIL the Southern Baptist denomination was created for the sole purpose of supporting slavery in the South, they didn’t apologize for their stance on slavery until 1995.
b9nNN TIL that just as America entered WWII, serial bomber George Metesky informed NYPD that, as a patriot of his country, he would make no bomb threats for the duration of the war. He stayed true to his word.
ANp9a TIL that objects look smaller when viewed from between the legs
lAx5 TIL that crows (and other corvids) can remember individual human faces, hold grudges against us, and teach their crow brothers and sisters to dislike us too.
MvPb TIL that Denise Nickerson, the girl who played Violet, chewed so much gum on the set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory that she ended up with 13 cavities after filming.