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TIL about the Peelian Principles, which are nine rules to encourage ethical policing and public trust in the police within the UK

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PYNPO TIL about Dayton “Wheels” Jones, a pro Killer Instinct player who was born with SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) type 2. Despite his genetic disorder, he’s an absolute master at Killer Instinct. He won 2nd place at the 2017 Combo Breaker tournament.
neyR7 TIL that lemmings don't commit mass suicide. It is a myth widely spread by Disney's 1958 Academy Award-winning documentary White Wilderness, in which producers threw lemmings off a cliff to their deaths to fake the footage.
Ajxa TIL Dick Fosbury won the 1968 Olympic High Jump medal by using the hitherto unknown “flop” technique that he himself invented. It remains the most efficient high jumping technique to this day.
j6ylp TIL, while much of the evidence and general consensus supports the Wright Brothers as “First in Flight” Alberto Santos-Dumont, Gustave Whitehead, and others have competing claims.
BXYL TIL that when a group of protesters asserted that Anne Frank was fictional, a concentration camp survivor and Nazi hunter named Simon Wiesenthal spend 5 years tracking down the man who arrested her to prove them wrong