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TIL - In an effort to solve the extremely high corruption rate problem, Georgia (the country) once fired it’s ENTIRE police force. It turned out that the police WERE the problem and the move actually worked, as the country’s corruption almost vanished in the following three months with no police.

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J1vG4 TIL that Empress Yuan ruled as Emperor for a few hours in Wei China after her grandmother falsely pretended she was a boy.
9Yn7Q TIL as homage and in-joke, Quentin Tarantino named Mike Myers character from Inglourious Basterds "General Ed Feneche" to honor 1970s era Italian scream queen and sex symbol Edwige Fenech.
kOrOg TIL that between 2014 and 2016 an Australian electrician bunked off work roughly 140 times to play golf, covering his tracks using a crisp packet as a Faraday cage to block an electronic tracker that would have pinpointed his location.
LkK1Z TIL the United States Navy Pre-Flight School created a routine to help pilots fall asleep in 2 minutes or less. It took pilots about 6 weeks of practice, but it worked — even after drinking coffee and with gunfire noises in the background.
NXjxE TIL that Fuente del Ángel Caído - the Monument of the Fallen Angel, situated in Buen Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain - is at the height of exactly 666 meters above the sea level and is reputed to be the only prominent sculpture dedicated to the devil