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TIL: The National Park Service has an Investigative Services Branch which does the equivalent job of the FBI

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8aPL TIL That King Philip of Macedon lost his eye in a battle. When his men picked up the arrow that had pierced him, written on the shaft was “To Philip’s Eye!” The Archer had called his shot.
Lk1Qm TIL The success of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure led to the creation of a cereal called "Bill & Ted's Excellent Cereal"
oRy57 TIL that the 10,000 steps a day was an arbitrary number that came from a marketing campaign for an early pedometer launched ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The number was chosen because the Japanese character for 10,000 resembles a person walking.
Z8WaD TIL the ancient greeks thought the body was regulated by four humors (juices): blood, yellow bile, phlegm and "black bile". In a healthy body they were in the right proportion to each other, an imbalance was thought to be the cause of diseases. From these humors we still have words like sanguin or
pY47O TIL in 2018 a Missouri deer hunter convicted of poaching hundreds of deer was forced to watch the animated film “Bambi” once a month for the duration of his one year prison sentence