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TIL Neither the FBI or New York recorded the 9/11 attack in the crime statisitcs report for 2001. They claimed this single event would skew the entire crime statistics program and therefor could not be counted as deaths in New York.

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0w4Dv Today I learned... many California inmates have served time by becoming forest firefighters
VBY1Z TIL that Acacia trees in Africa communicate with each other. They emit gasses to alert other trees to produce the toxin tannin, which protects them from hungry animals.
LQgZd TIL Nina Simone’s song Mississippi Goddam was written in response to a Baptist church bombing in 1963. This song was used as an anthem for the civil rights movement in a time when music was heavily censored
PYlnJ TIL The word "vanilla" has a root going back to Latin word "vagina," meaning "sheath," which describes the shape of vanilla pods.
PVwE TIL that children in China were asked to dress in white fertilizer bags and ordered to stand on a hill to appear as sheep so that local leaders could give the impression to their party superiors that they were prospering.