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TIL: Cops can keep anything they seize, even if you are proven innocent. (In certain states)

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ExZ7 TIL that in Paris in 1926 the Ukrainian Head of State was assassinated with 5 shots from a revolver in broad daylight. The policeman who witnessed the crime walked over to the gunman, saying quietly “Is that enough?”.
KOnWE TIL California has oil rigs hidden in fake buildings in plain sight
OoP8X TIL There's a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. A study by the personal genomics company 23andMe identified a small DNA variation in a cluster of olfactory receptor genes that is strongly associated with the perception of a “soapy” taste in cilantro.
neA4b TIL there is a neurological condition called Witzelsucht that gives one an "uncontrollable tendency to pun"
VBdeQ TIL Donnie Yen (the blind monk in Star Wars: Rogue One/star of the Ip Man films) was once leaving a Hong Kong nightclub with his girlfriend when they were attacked by a gang who had been bothering them earlier in the night. Donnie hospitalised 8 of them.