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TIL all froot loops have the same flavor.

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OoPE7 TIL that 14 of the 60 residents of the village of New Rome, Ohio were police officers. The police department's only purpose was issuing traffic tickets, and they brought in around $400,000 a year, mostly by citing drivers for things such as improperly tinted windows. The town was dissolved in 2004.
eLOg TIL that in the US, law enforcement officers can take assets from a person suspected of involvement with crime or illegal activity without charging the owners of said crime(s)
6Ev7l TIL about "The Radium Girls", female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. The women, told the paint was harmless, ingested deadly amounts of radium after being instructed to "point" their brushes between their lips for a fine point.
neJ6d TIL of Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen was a 6’7” tall walrus-spearing, peg-legged, anti-Semite-clobbering Danish explorer and badass old-school 1900s explorer who escaped certain death by molding his own faeces into a knife and using it to carve through a solid wall of ice.
OPYL TIL The “Middle Finger” gesture was first used in an ancient Greek play in 423 B.C, referring to “a male who submits to anal penetration