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TIL Supervisors of The Glynn County Police Department, responsible for the investigation of Ahmaud Arbery, have a history of misconduct, encouraging alterations of testimony, and retaliation against officers who have complied with past GBI investigations for prior incidents.

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kO6v1 TIL about vanity sizing, which is the practice of assigning smaller sizes to clothing to flatter customers and encourage sales. For example, a Sears dress with a 32 inch (81 cm) bust was labeled a size 14 in the 1930s, a size 8 in the 1960s, and a size 0 in the 2010s.
wWAE TIL The USA throws away the equivalent of 125 school busses full of plastic drinking straws on a daily basis.
OROY TIL that all the contributors of the psuedoscientifc AIDS denial magazine ‘Continuum’ died of clinical conditions caused by AIDS
VKP0 TIL that doctors before the eleventh century would drink the urine of their patients to determine whether or not they had diabetes. A sugary taste indicated the person was diabetic.
x6eak TIL Public toilet seats are U-shaped because the American Standard National Plumbing Code writes that they must have a gap at the front.