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TIL American Police killed more people in March (111) than the entire UK police have killed since 1900

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0d8aN TIL In 1942, a 60-foot-long (18 m) 1000-ton ship was built out of ice and sawdust in hopes to be an aircraft carrier
LpXQ TIL that California’s largest wildfire was started by a lost hunter who had made a fire to signal rescuers, and as a result fifteen people died
0APj TIL American Sign Language is most closely related to French Sign Language because a British institution was unwilling to share their methods.
VBXx4 TIL cyber criminals with the help of A.I voice cloning software, used a deepfaked voice of a company executive to fool a Emirati bank manager to transfer 35 million dollars into their personal accounts. The bank manager had recognized the executive's voice from having worked with him before.
7mY7 TIL that Mark Zuckerberg unsuccessfully tried to sell facebook for $75 million in 2005.