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TIL the first police force of New South Wales (Australia) consisted of eight of the best-behaved convicts

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N7ZwE TIL: Black US troops were welcome in Britain in WW2, but the US military's attempt to initiate segregation led to a shootout.
8a9MZ TIL The Blue Hole is a 120-metre-deep sinkhole, five miles north of Dahab, Egypt. Its nickname is the “divers’ cemetery”. Divers in Dahab say 200 died in recent years. Many of those who died were attempting to swim under the arch. This challenge is to scuba divers what Kilimanjaro is to hikers.
XEdP8 TIL that mucus gets its green color from an enzyme white blood cells use to make a corrosive chemical called hypochlorite to dissolve bacteria. Hypochlorite is the same chemical used in household bleach.
l171 TIL that on this day in 1959, Five hundred thousand American steelworkers went on strike, closing nearly every steel mill in the country.
oQlA TIL in 2013 a Chicago man told police who pulled him over “I’m gonna be real with you, I have a gun in my ass.” The cops then found a gun in his ass.