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TIL The entire Norwegian police force only fired 3 shots during 2014.

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gvBL TIL artificial banana flavour doesn’t taste like bananas because the taste is based of a banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.
R5BX4 Today I learned that Goku from the anime Dragon Ball has been voiced by the same voice actress, Masako Nozawa, since the first show started in 1986. She has voiced him in all the tv shows, video games and movies and also voices his sons. She is currently 88.
E16AP TIL that,during the Cold War, the Canadian government commissioned the creation of a device that could detect homosexuality in people in order to keep members of the LGBT community out of public service or the military.Its nickname?"Fruit Machine".
epx14 TIL Mexico's official legal name is "United Mexican States"
JYJ5m TIL that the chunks of ice that break off of icebergs are officially called "bergy bits"