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N7mgQ TIL that at almost $11 billion, the annual NYPD budget is more than 3 times higher than the entire UN budget of just over $3 billion.
8OPa TIL we laugh when we’re tickled because our brain believes we are about to be injured (ticklish spots are also spots of vulnerability) and is using laughter to convey submission to an aggressor
neG09 TIL Heinrich Otto Wieland researched bile acids, toad poisons and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Wieland also protected people, especially Jewish students, who were "racially burdened" after the Nuremberg Laws. Expelled students could stay in his group as chemists
ALEa TIL The Manhatten Project raised background radiation levels so much, that for a long time geiger counters were built out of pre-1940s steel, mainly salvaged from sunken battleships
9PjQ TIL UK forced pills often used in suicide to be sold in those annoying blister packs, resulting in 21% to 48% decreases in suicides from those drugs, with no increase in other methods of suicide.