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TIL in 1984 the FBI declared the Key West Police Department a criminal enterprise, and several high-ranking officers were arrested for running a protection racket for cocaine smugglers.

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WdR4 TIL of the “phantom traffic jam” and why traffic jams get created sometimes when nothing is actually in the way.
R7moQ TIL during the American Civil War the Union troops came up with their own version of Dixieland called Union Dixie telling the story of how they felt about their southern counterparts.
16KOP TIL that when a celebratory dinner in honour of recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. did not garner enough support in his native Atlanta, J. Paul Austin, CEO of Coca-Cola, threatened to pull his business out of the city - within two hours of this announcement tickets were sold out.
GE8j TIL that when he was in the first grade, Ryan Gosling was heavily influenced by the action film First Blood, so he took steak knives to school and threw them at other children during recess, which led to his suspension
4kdMa TIL about the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, the biggest heist (with inflation accounted for) in Canadian history was almost 3,000 tons of maple syrup and took place over several months in 2011 and 2012.