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TIL in 1957, a 23-year-old man murdered two police officers after they pulled him over for running a red light. 45 years later, he was caught when a print from the crime was matched to a 1956 burglary. He hadn’t committed any other crimes in the intervening years.

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D19Br TIL "Noodling" as a means of catching catfish using bare hands as bait, is practiced primarily in the South. It requires fishermen to reach into submerged breeding holes in riverbanks in hopes that the catfish will swim forward and latch onto their hand or is large enough to be grabbed by the gills
6ED4l TIL in 2006 a Filipino-born Canadian boy was punished by his school for using his cutlery according to Filipino etiquette. The teacher sanctioned the 7-year-old Luc for what the school called "disgusting" and "piggish" eating habits: using a fork to push his food onto a spoon before eating it.
YxDx TIL that when British warships enter the Thames they are required to present a barrel of rum to the Constable of the Tower (the man in command of the Tower of London) in the ‘Ceremony of the Constables Dues’.
B0Ox TIL Johnny Carson never talked to close colleague Joan Rivers again after she got her own show, and actively sought to sink her career.
MeLkV TIL "bury the lede" is spelled L E D E and has nothing to do with the word lead.