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TIL since 2003, police officers have killed more Americans than the war in Afghanistan and Iraq

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VMgmm TIL in 1985, a Coca-Cola employee was fired for being engaged to a Pepsi employee
wWmJ TIL that a study estimated that pharmaceutical companies spend more money on advertising than they do on research and development.
78lVO TIL researchers last year analyzed two dozen studies on reading comprehension published between 2000-2022, which assessed nearly 470,000 participants, and found that print reading over a long period of time may boost comprehension skills by six to eight times more than digital reading does.
NXLPM TIL that despite having herbivorous diets similar to cattle, which release large quantities of digestive methane through exhaling and burping, kangaroos release virtually none; the hydrogen byproduct is converted into acetate instead, then used to provide further energy
aPaL TIL when Spielberg first showed John Williams a cut of Schindler’s List, Williams was so moved he had to take a walk outside to collect himself. Upon his return, Williams told Spielberg he deserved a better composer. Spielberg replied, “I know, but they’re all dead.”