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TIL Australia’s first police force was comprised of the best-behaved convicts

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M7X67 TIL using ultrasound technology, scientists can actually use whale songs to map out the ocean floor.
b9erE TIL: Mel Brooks put on a prosthetic 11th finger for adding his hand print on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
e6LJ TIL Sony sold more than 12 million 3.5 inch floppy disks… in 2009
RQK6 TIL that a man thought to have taken part in the mexican revolution was was sentenced to death without a trial Shot 8-9 times and then shot point blank in the head. was found unconscious received medical treatment and recovered.
MeRnb TIL that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" is not a quote from some ancient philosopher or legal code. It is a quote from the 1982 Star Trek film The Wrath of Khan.