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TIL Tupac shot two cops, and had all the charges dropped on account of the cops drunkenly pointing a stolen gun at pedestrians

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Wrw8 TIL of Dickey Chapelle, The first female reporter and correspondent killed in action. Dickey was at Iwo Jima, Okinawa during ww2 and covered the Hungarian revolution of 1956; She traveled with the troops and learned to jump with paratroopers. She was killed during the Vietnam war.
gMjR9 TIL some people are phobic of certain numbers. In some Asian countries, it is common to omit floors that include the 4 as it is similar to death in Mandarin. While in Italy, 17 may refer "I am dead." In some western cultures, 13 is considered an unlucky number.
4kDwJ TIL Brainwashing is largely myth, and is not accepted within mainstream science.
0YRv TIL the British were not always heavy tea drinkers. They only switched to tea after an introduced plant rust wiped out most of the world’s coffee crops in the late 1800s.
5Yxpp TIL of Quaker Guns, a deception tactic in warfare where logs, typically painted black, would be used as fake cannons to deceive enemy forces. In one instance in WWII, fake machine guns were created from a pair of broomsticks painted black mounted at the tail end of a fuselage to simulate tail guns.