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TIL many police stations and law enforcement agencies are SafeTrade stations: Safe exchange locations for meetup, pickup or drop off points to reduce Craigslist crime and other online transactions for those meeting in person.

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0wLMN TIL Wally Amos, of Famous Amos cookies, was also the host of an adult learning program, Learn to Read on PBS in the late ‘80s. He has been advocating and promoting literacy for nearly his entire life.
PXxV TIL In 1518, People “danced themselves to death” for no obvious reason in Strasbourg, France. One woman started it, and others joined her. Within a month, there were 400 people involved. Many died from pure exhaustion.
LkjJr TIL some sixty-six years ago, in the midst of another political firestorm, a senator named Robert C. Hendrickson, a New Jersey Republican, came up with a proposal for another path: a constitutional amendment that would allow Americans, by popular vote, to recall a President.
kOkmE TIL so many species of non-crab crustaceans have evolved in a crab-like direction that we have a word for that, and it's Carcinisation
6EQ8Y TIL of Nazi official Herbert Backe, who masterminded the WWII program to starve Eastern Europe. After the Allied victory he flew to Eisenhower's headquarters, perceiving himself as a leading expert on solving hunger problems and expecting a discussion with the general. He was imprisoned.