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TIL British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident

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lkxV TIL that Patrick Stewart once said that, “All of those years in Royal Shakespeare Company – playing all those kings, emperors, princes and tragic heroes – were nothing but preparation for sitting in the captain’s chair of the Enterprise.”
W7eBN TIL The first person to fly a powered aircraft in Australia was escape artist Harry Houdini
AyNB TIL that the sting of the tarantuala hawk wasp is among the most painful of all insects. One researcher described the pain as “…immediate… unrelenting pain that simply shuts down one’s ability to do anything, except scream.”
jNOBv TIL: An old building in Turin recently updated its look by getting a belly-button piercing. The huge ring-and-ball piercing is bleeding a little: painted-on red blood on one side, blue on the other. It's said to be a temporary art piece.
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