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TIL the Supreme Court has ruled police have no legal duty to enforce restraining orders, after police failed to act on the restraining order of a mother whose 3 children were later murdered by her ex-husband.

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GY9ZE TIL that D.D. Palmer, the creator of chiropractic medicine, claimed to have received his ideas on chiropractic from "the other world" and considered declaring chiropractic to be a religion.
Vjm TIL: There is a bar in Canada named after Zaphod Beeblebrox. And it serves Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters!
VmBQ TIL There was only one victim to survive the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre when he arrived at the hospital. When asked by police who shot him 22 times, he said “Nobody shot me.”
PLXe TIL Some Buddhists also see the The Big Lewbowski’s Dude as a modern day Zen Master.
neArW TIL the 2010 Japanese earthquake/tsunami caused a single death in the United States, killing a man attempting to photograph tsunami waves that reached the California coast. His body was eventually found 330 miles to the north on a beach in Oregon.