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TIL: Some police Unions have negotiated the right to work half-drunk without fear of disciplinary action.

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QJd1X TIL 11% of US working age adults are on antidepressants.
K8Ma TIL: During the Great Potato Famine, the Ottoman Empire sent ships full of food, were turned away by the British, and then snuck into Dublin illegally to provide aid to the starving Irish.
1a6ZP How well do you know your neighbors? If you live in an urban area of North America, you might have a furry neighbor that you haven't yet seen. Raccoons have adapted so well to city life, they are now more common in cities than in the country.
P178n TIL: The Sedlec Ossuary contains the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, whose bones have been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings such as a bone chandelier. Some arrangements were by a half blind monk in 1511. It is now a tourist attraction and featured in movies.
e0NwJ TIL That Stephen Hawking attempted to commit suicide by not breathing following a tracheostomy operation however, the reflex to breathe was too strong.