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TIL every year, more police officers commit suicide than are killed by the guns of felons

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rmpd TIL Anderson Cooper is the great-great-great grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
e0jJ TIL that when Gerber began to sell their baby food in Africa, they had to remove the image of a baby from the labels, since many horrified, illiterate Africans used these images to find what the bottles contained.
wL716 TIL that the Empty Sky 9/11 Memorial in Jersey City consists of two parallel stainless steel walls, each 210 feet long by 30 feet high, that not only remember the names of the 476 New Jersey victims but also illuminate a dramatic halo of light that touches each name at dusk and at dawn.
6ngw TIL during the 1936 Olympics, Liechtenstein and Haiti realized their national flags were identical. A gold crown was added to Liechtenstein’s as a result.
16GDD TIL: Airplanes take off and land into the wind. They takeoff into the wind to reduce the groundspeed required to lift and land into it to reduce groundspeed when landing.