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TIL a 14-year-old boy faked being a Chicago Police Officer for an entire shift

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pY8xA TIL of the "preparedness paradox" where if a disaster is avoided through planning and vigilance, people will doubt that the preparation was necessary
l7RNK TIL a band released blank album cover captioned “We had an album cover we wanted to use, but after getting dropped by our label we can no longer afford to use it. So instead you can stare at this blank square.”
BNPk TIL That Paul Simon listed the time length of “Fakin’ It” as 2:74 because radio stations didn’t want to play something over 3 minutes long
49Qw TIL that in 1938, a Kindergarten teacher who witnessed a burglary was jailed for five days because she wore a pair of slacks into court the day she was called to testify.
9YLBG TIL the Virgin Mary is mentioned more times in the Quran than in the entirety of the Bible.