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TIL that police officers in one state in India are given a slight pay upgrade for having a moustache

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7reDx TIL A WW2 pigeon named Mary of Exeter survived an assassination attempt by a German warhawk, was shot, hit with shrapnel, and survived a bombing of her loft while delivering messages across the English Channel to France.
m11YE TIL that Mark Felt, who notoriously provided reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein with critical information about the Watergate scandal under the pseudonym "Deep Throat", was nearly nominated to serve as Acting Director of the FBI after the resignation of L. Patrick Gray in 1973.
xVAw TIL Even the Pope thinks the debate between Creationism and Evolution is ridiculous.
EgY7V TIL Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was buried at sea.
pMKp TIL the original Tron movie (1982) was disqualified from receiving an Academy Award nomination for special effects, because the Academy felt at the time that using computers was “cheating”