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TIL Johnny Knoxville is the result of “significant inbreeding”. This was discovered by a genealogist he himself hired.

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x9X0 TIL that after police officers in Rialto, CA started wearing cameras, public complaints against officers plunged 88%, and officers’ use of force fell by 60%.
kmd5 TIL In 2007 an Indian non-profit released fake zero-rupee banknotes that people can give to politicians who demand bribes
Z89la TIL that a Bonsai tree survive during atomic bomb at Hiroshima and is now present in U.S National Arboretum.
LkM5d TIL that chronic nail biting is more closely linked to impulse disorders like Tourettes than OCD or anxiety
lY4A TIL the first official motor vehicle “speeding” ticket was handed out in the UK, when a gentleman named Walter Arnold was caught rocketing down the road at the breakneck speed of… 8 MPH.