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TIL During a 12 month trial of police wearing video cameras in Rialto, CA the use of force dropped by 60% and complaints against officers dropped by 88%

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QJWo9 TIL of the art movement called Accidentalism, in which a portrait is painted first, and only after the work is done a person is looked for that looks like the one in the painting. There are still portraits that have not found a subject yet.
YDov TIL that several Native American tribes fought on the side of the British in the Revolutionary War, including the Mohawk and the Cherokee.
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