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TIL in 2014, US law enforcement took $4.5 billion from citizens who were never charged with a crime; more than US burglars stole in the same year

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MQ1A TIL an Illnois aquarium had a fish named Bubba which became popular with cancer patients as it was the first fish to undergo chemo
xVLpD TIL that the bikini was invented by the frenchman Louis Réard in 1946. At the time, the USA were conducting Atomic Bomb tests in the Bikini Atoll, and so Louis Réard named his two piece swimsuit the “Bikini” as it was what he referred to as an “Anatomic Bomb”
5YXD9 TIL after a fire destroyed Brazil's National Museum in September, university museum studies students began collecting visitors' photos of the irreplaceable artifacts that were lost so they can re-create the museum's collection virtually.
XQOE TIL Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory(2005).
e0da4 TIL the main beat from “All Caps” by MF DOOM is a sample from the 1967 crime drama “Ironside”