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ZpwLY TIL the director of the French Connection paid an official at the New York Transit Authority a $40,000 bribe to overlook the rules and allow the famous chase sequence to be filmed.
OopJR TIL President Carter "fended off a killer rabbit" that swam out to attack him.
Ypy9A TIL: Up until the 1950's, NYC had an abundance of wild marijuana plants, with some in Brooklyn growing as high as seven feet tall. They were all eventually eradicated by the Department of Sanitation, destroying nearly 41,000 pounds of wild weed.