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D1oGg TIL that it is a common misconception that one must wait 24 hours to file a missing persons report. Law enforcement agencies often stress that the case should be reported as early as possible
MearV TIL jet engines are tested against bird strikes using a "Chicken Gun" that fires dead chicken bodies at them.
1adkd TIL Despite the fact that China is wider than the contiguous United States and could ideally have 5 different time zones, China uses only one time zone called China Standard Time (CST) across the entire country.
xBgb TIL that doctors in countries with more “socialized medicine” only make slightly less annually than U.S. doctors. A major argument against social medicine is that doctors should be well-paid, and social medicine would demand major pay cuts.
b6X57 TIL of spy novels that were so accurate that politicians read them to learn about the real world. Real spies told Gérard de Villiers—creator of the popular French "SAS" series—of their secret acts, then enjoyed reading about them in fictionalized form.