› added 10 years ago

121

TIL that many police officers maintain that the most realistic police show in the history of television was the sitcom Barney Miller.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

EgyL7 TIL When Eli Wallach arrived in Madrid, Spain, all of the hotels were full. Clint Eastwood invited him to sleep over at a friend's house, and they shared the same bed. Wallach's wife Anne Jackson told him he could boast that he was the only man to sleep with Clint Eastwood.
jNNbp Short answer: Yes, but only at night
LrQp TIL during the Challenger search and recovery, sailors found a floating duffle bag full of cocaine, worth $13 MIL - enough to the pay for the Navy’s search and recovery efforts. [pdf]
W7dVX TIL an Australian couple bought their neighbors home with the intention of fixing it up and sell for a profit for their retirement. However they couldn't because the paperwork drafted over a century ago, when the lots were first registered, states that their new house is built on a different lot.
MepaB TIL people can genuinely lie without knowing it due to ‘Confabulation’: the production or creation of false memories without the intent to deceive, sometimes called "honest lying."