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TIL that a woman won $40,000 as a settlement from NYC due to police repeatedly arresting her for going topless, it’s perfectly legal for men and women to go topless in NYC

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wLgN1 TIL that delivery companies hijack phone numbers of restaurants and are hemorrhaging money. Grubhub lost $33 million on $360 million in revenue in Q1. Doordash lost $450 million off $900 million in revenue in 2019. Uber Eats has Uber's highest profits. Uber Eats spent $1.2 B to make $734 million
8e9N8 TIL after a Taliban fighter shot down an American CH-47D Chinook, he boasted about it over his radio. Signals Intelligence identified the caller, and within two days, an F-16, a C-130, and two Apache Gunships used their combined firepower to kill him and five others.
N7oDM TIL the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, Gerald Charles Dickens, is an actor who has written and performed one-man shows of Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, A Tale of Two Cities, and A Christmas Carol.
wLbWM TIL that dogs take the alignment of the earths magnetic poles into consideration when figuring out where to poop.
4X9NR TIL eye contact helps people determine trustworthiness of others, through pupil mimicry and the release of oxytocin when eye contact is made.