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TIL: in 2015, NYPD went on strike to show how important they were to the city and later studies showed the rates of crimes actually decreased

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jNyp TIL neuroscientists have shown that the Arabic alphabet is objectively harder to read than any other writing system
vZO7 TIL that in 1976 as a show of force after 2 marines were killed by North Korean guards wielding axes who crossed the DMZ, a joint US-South Korean army brigade invaded North Korea in overwhelming force, only to cut down a tree and leave.
VyBG TIL that South Korea holds all the Olympics records for Women’s archery and 5/7 of the records for Men’s
e09OE TIL Mother whales breastfeed via extendable nipples stored in slits adjacent to their genitals
ANZ7B TIL that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has a sunscreen protection factor (SPF) of 1.2 million on its sunshield