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TIL: Police officers and security guards often wear clip-on ties as a precaution against being strangled by a pulled necktie.

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R7erw TIL that because of the Jay Treaty of 1794, "Indians" born in Canada have full rights to enter, work, attend college, and access public benefits in the U.S. exactly as if they were citizens. U.S. "Indians" have very limited access in the other direction.
yvbX TIL that the mayor of Tinley Park, Illinois refused to let 16 & pregnant film crew on city property.
wLjwE TIL that earthworms don’t come to the surface after it rains because they can survive underwater for up to 2 weeks. They surface after a heavy rain for migration purposes.
Y7R6B TIL the spiders Chrysso venusta and Cyrtophora cicatrosa can rapidly change their colours, similar to ectotherms such as reptiles, frogs, cephalopods (including species of squid, octopus, cuttlefish), insects, crustaceans and fish
Yp8mx TIL of Jaycee Dugard, an 11-year old girl who was kidnapped in 1991 only to be found when her kidnapper walked into a school in 2009 with two young girls claiming they were his daughters. They were in fact his daughters, their mother being Jaycee; a prisoner for 18 years and a mother at 14.