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TIL some states in India pay policemen to keep mustaches to appear more intimidating

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kORGg TIL Neither the FBI or New York recorded the 9/11 attack in the crime statisitcs report for 2001. They claimed this single event would skew the entire crime statistics program and therefor could not be counted as deaths in New York.
KjOa TIL Canada formally awarded Santa Claus official citizenship and gave him his own postal code (H0H 0H0) so children can send him letters
dQrZ TIL 40% of Rome’s population was slaves, imported from France or Germany, indistinguishable from the regular Italian. Some senators wanted to identify them with stars. Seneca replied, “If they knew how many of us there were compared to them, we would be in danger.”
A44 TIL 21 people died in “The Great Molasses Flood” of 1919. More than 90 years later, some streets in Boston still “bleed” molasses on hot days.
5Y4xr TIL that Van Halen refused to make videos for their album 5150, so Warner Bros quickly cobbled together a video for the song "Dreams" by using stock footage of the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels. The cheap video became a surprise hit on MTV and the Navy began to use it as part of their recruiting efforts.