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TIL of Air Commodore Lionel Charlton, who resigned as the RAF Chief Staff Officer in Iraq because he objected to the bombing of Iraqi villages.

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ZDd4 TIL to justify the > $1 trillion spent on counter terrorism since 9/11, homeland security would have had to prevent more than 4 dozen deaths and $400 million dollars of damage from terrorist attacks in the US per day… NOT counting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
ep46D TIL that neurotransmitters were discovered in 1921 by Otto Loewi after an idea for the experiment which proved their existence occurred to him in a dream.
e0XVD TIL George Washington's salary as a US President was 2% of the total US budget at that time.
7XBL TIL Häagen-Dazs is a name made up to sound Danish and doesn’t actually mean anything
7r4DL TIL about Blackstone's ratio, the idea that, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." Blackstone's principle influenced the nineteenth-century development of "beyond a reasonable doubt" as the burden of proof in criminal law.