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TIL in all Japanese schools they run an emergency drill where a police officer dressed as an assailant freely runs around campus and tries to attack students with a realistic-looking plastic knife, while the teachers coordinate a defense to subdue him.

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R7pbj TIL that in 1997 Pope John Paul II had nominated St. Isidore of Seville to be the patron saint of the Internet, a seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who tried to record everything ever known.
5VAAr Today I learned there is another dwarf planet further than Pluto called Gongong.
xpPo TIL That for about 5 months in 2008 it was 100% legal to abandon your teenage child by bringing them to a hospital and driving off. During this period over 35 teenagers were abandoned by their parents.
o1WY TIL There is a judge in Ohio who has sentenced people to spend a night in the woods alone( animal abandonment), be homeless for 24hrs( stealing a Salvation Army kettle), and stay silent or listen to classical music for a day( noise complaints).
vPeRL TIL that movie star and European karate champion black belt Dolph Lundgren, who earned a Masters in Chemical Engineering and received a scholarship from MIT, is also an abuse survivor.