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TIL: Rob Lowe went to high school with Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Sean Penn, Chris Penn, and Robert Downey Jr..

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494o TIL in 2012 only 60 NYPD officers discharged their weapons.(0.17%) Of the 26,091 weapons arrest, 26,000 were completed without an officer firing their weapon. The race stats of the officers who discharged weapons almost directly matches the racial makeup of the NYPD.
N7G71 TIL that Alec Baldwin is a direct descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland, and thus is a 14-generation American.
pYA9G TIL Puyi, the Last Emperor of China, passed away in what was then called “Beijing Hospital of Anti-Imperialism”
VMvA8 TIL the root of the word "ruthless" the the verb "to rue" meaning “to feel sorrow or regret”
16MB8 TIL Chuck Berry was incarcerated for more than a year at Springfield's federal prison. He used his time behind bars to study business and wrote several songs including "Nadine" and “No Particular Place to Go”