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We don't know about you, but we love it when random fascinating facts catch us off guard at times. For the most part, a lot of us tend to enjoy and are entertained by surprising or strange tidbits of information from the fields of science, history, and even some like pop culture.
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Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
...recruits are, apparently, taken off the street, turned around three times, given a gun, and sent out on patrol.
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pineapple87 2 years ago
Not just Norway, but the majority of European countries have similar standards for police training. There's a reason you don't constantly hear news about the police shooting unarmed people 20+ times outside the US.
CD King 2 years ago
In British Columbia, Canada you must have a minimum of 2 years education (law, sociology, stats, criminology, etc...) plus after you are hired you must have 9 months more of precise training.
Ottawa 2 years ago (edited)
Its similar in QC. You need a 3 years college diploma (police course) followed by 15 weeks at the QC police academy. Or university degree in law enforcement followed by the 15 weeks at the academy.
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Robert T 2 years ago (edited)
Reminds me of when I was teaching a course a Police Training College in Scotland. I was teaching IT staff, rather than cadets, but I had the misfortune to decide to go to the loo just as a group came out of one of their lectures. It was a requirement that they address anybody in a suit as "sir" and they weren't allowed to not acknowledge you either, even if you were only in your 20's. Most embarassing as I was desperate for a pee. I also learnt that the plural of "sir" is "sirs". So when two of us were walking down the corridor, we'd be addressed as "sirs". LOL
Jesus Ortiz 2 years ago
Here in the backwards state of Idaho, police academy is only 10 weeks.
sofacushionfort 2 years ago
A high percentage of US cops were on their high school football team. That somehow counts.
Haywood Jablome 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure "dumber" cops are preferred in the US, like IQ 90~. That group is usually better at following orders
Elin Stenqvist 2 years ago
Some years ago four Swedish police officers on vacation in New York shocked the American police by de-escalating a fight on a subway train UNARMED and without harming anyone. https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/4-swedish-cops-on-vacation-break-up-nyc-subway-fight-1.2343606
Goth Nurse 2 years ago
Same here in Finland. It's not an easy school to get in to. And it's a higher education like in Norway.
Moezzzz 2 years ago
Why can't we do that here? My brother was in the Army for 13 years but wanted to do something else, so he used his GI Bill to go to college and got his degree in criminal justice and became a police officer (well, he applied, then went through academy training). He's going for his masters now.
Judes 2 years ago
I think most countries do police training. University doesn't automatically make a course more rigorous than a police academy or any other place of higher education.
Mary Rogers 2 years ago (edited)
But certain courses of study can greatly enhance your people skills which cops in the US definitely lack. Shooting mentally ill people for example happens quite regularly. Learning sociology and psychology would help. It would also help with dealing with minorities. A ten week police academy course should not be considered sufficient training for dealing with the public when you are armed with a gun.
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Riley Quinn 2 years ago
While in the USA, our cops... well, I'll let Sarah Silverman explain: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2e342o/sarah_silverman_knows_how_to_manage_a_traffic_stop/
Disco Hippie 2 years ago
Four year studies in Finland and also hard tests if you even get to study.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Please note the complete lack of target practice. I'm not keen on people who like shooting guns a bit too much.
Amanda Hunter 2 years ago
I doubt if Norwegians are as drug dependent and violent as good ol USA citizens.
Amanda Hunter 2 years ago
Training and education is stringent and difficult in the US, I know.
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Yugan Talovich 2 years ago
In Taiwan, to join the police force, after high school you have to go through two years at the police academy. To be an officer, you have to graduate from the four year police university. Also, they are attracting women to join, to help defuse tense situations.
Jessica J. 2 years ago
To be fair, officers in the US never stop taking classes...there's always a new course of training assigned. They aren't always logical...but they must take the course, nonetheless less. For instance, I live in a the Blue Ridge Mountains, and when my dad was an active duty officer, it was required they drive 4 hours away to the state capital, to take a course on proper driving technique in conditions requiring four wheel drive. The instructor learned a few new things during that course...
Ericthedead 2 years ago
That sounds like a good idea. I’ve always felt that cops need more training and the bar raised. Like a four yr degree. It might weed out more of the incompetent morons I see with guns and badges every day.
rodger coghlan 2 years ago
Growing up in Montana, I read adds for police recruits that read "must have college degree or be over 6 ft tall"
Nitka Tsar 2 years ago
I wanted to look up the requirements for police in Germany, but I am sick and it was too much for me.
BirFromHH 2 years ago
Depending in the path you want to go it's beginning with two or tree years of study (paid) at a Police Academy.
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Fish Fingers 2 years ago
Do they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats? Please tell me they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats!
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Michael Sanders 2 years ago
Man. Joe has dysentery real bad, someone should take care of him. Wtf wants to nurse a guy through dysentery? No one that’s the problem! Wait, don’t we have a baboon around here?
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Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 2 years ago
I want it, how much is it, I’ll report back with my findings
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Lennart 2 years ago (edited)
That's actually not surprising to me. The main way radiation kills living organisms is via DNA Damage. The most susceptible is DNA being decoded, as unused DNA is curled up and will less likely be damaged by radiation. The faster stuff grows the more susceptible to radiation damage (that's why radiating tumors works). As a bonsai is by design being kept withing very strict growing boundaries it has a much higher chance of surviving radiation than a normal growing counterpart. Plus fact: there is a bacterial species called Deinococcus radiodurans which as you may have guessed ist extremely durable towards radiation, they do this via very good DNA repair mechanism but also low metabolism and division rates.
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Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 2 years ago
Y’all this is really random but it’s 11:11 and it’s also almost Christmas. So I guess make a wish
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spirit wolf 2 years ago
Guilty as charged. But there has been so many deaths in my life this year.
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MissMePhoenix 2 years ago
I remember this exact moment!! I thought it was so awesome, like literally awe-some lol
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ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
A $50 bet, per Snopes. For the curious, here is a list of the 50 words that appear in Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.
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Zia Barrett 2 years ago
Aside from the hypothesis being 80 years old, little dogs living half this, and chickens also being an outlier - us having longer lifespans than 35 years is nothing to do with modern stuff. People historically lived to 60/80/90, General Cao Cao was 65 when he died in the 3rd century of a brain tumour. Lif expectancy was lower in the past but that was because of the high infant mortality rate bringing the number down, not people dropping dead in their 30s.
#43
Fish Fingers 2 years ago
But, we all knew it was the genie. He's even obviously voiced by Robin Williams, the voice of the genie.
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Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
I've spent my kid's entire childhood telling other parents this, they all just think I'm an idiot. Oh well.
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Will Cable 2 years ago
It explains why so many of us have low self esteem from what happened to us during childhood.
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Nunya Bidness 2 years ago
Or they could just make them in the USA again. You know, have regulated labor and environmental practices and such.
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alias D. 2 years ago
Yeah all the companies that made lightbulbs basically have a giant meeting and said our lightbulbs are gonna last way too damn long we’re not gonna make any money so they decided to make the s****y ones that die in two years and it stayed like that till this day that lightbulb is probably one of those long lasting ones before they decided to screw us over
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David Phillips 2 years ago
If children cheat on tests it's because the school values grades above learning.
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Donkeywheel 2 years ago
This is a tendon, not a muscle. Everybody has it, might be visible, might not be. This story of extra useless muscle is pure b******t.
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Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 2 years ago
And on the internet it’s the wonderful, sometimes useless “/s”
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
And also because your hand has a lot of nerves so getting cut anywhere else would’nt hurt much
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Anyone-for-tea? 2 years ago
Wish this worked with chronic fatigue! (I’ve read this fact before and tried it on myself - it might give you some sort of temporary relief or distract you, but doesn’t work overall.)
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Dawn Marie 2 years ago
So if that is true, then Hanks and Clooney are related. Nepotism, I should have known. LOL!!!
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Anyone-for-tea? 2 years ago
I like, “ 30 days have September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31 except February… “ which has 28 and no one cares how the rhyme ends because you’ve worked out the month you wanted.
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Nancy Reynolds 2 years ago
Mom always said, "if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?"
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Liz Downing 2 years ago
In 24 years, my partner and I have never fought. We know we can disagree about a few things.
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Zia Barrett 2 years ago
That is poorly worded. Of course they have muscles but not muscles related to motion. They do have tendons, which are strictly speaking part of a muscle, but now we're getting pedantic.
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Thank you everyone for being so considerate and kind. It truly means the world.
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