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TIL The NYPD has a beekeeping unit with 2 full time officers whose job it is to focus solely on any issues related to bees in the city.

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MpbA TIL that spanking children makes them MORE likely to be defiant to their spanking parent. It also makes them more likely to have anti social and mental issues.
R54Jj TIL: Rope can be threaded left or right handed, commonly know as S and Z laid, with each way giving different properties to the rope
YGOd TIL Karl Marx’s last words were “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”
GAlQE TIL that the largest church in the world is The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, the administrative capital of Ivory Coast. It can accommodate 18,000 worshipers, but ordinary liturgies conducted at the basilica are usually attended by only a few hundred people.
bBZE TIL in 1956 a man appeared on the popular TV show “I’ve Got A Secret” who had witnessed Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14th, 1865