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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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4XeA6 TIL that the creators/directors/writers for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Parks and Rec, Rick and Morty, Bob’s Burgers, Silicon Valley, Modern Family, The Good Place, and American Dad all got their big breaks on King of the Hill
xPKo TIL that Creedence Clearwater Revival are a band of San Francisco natives, and were certainly not “born on a bayou.”
x4W5 TIL the bassist of 1970’s rock band Iron Butterfly developed missile guidance systems and software based digital video compression, was rumored to have disappeared in time travel attempt.
4kog6 TIL about Tiddles, a tabby cat who made his home in the Ladies' toilets at Paddington Station in London. Visitors would constantly gift him choice cuts of meat, leading to staff installing a personal fridge for him. Tiddles eventually became so fat, he was described as "[...]a beach ball with fur."