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TIL a woman was allowed to join the Fire Department of New York despite failing a mandatory physical skills/fitness test.

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oapo TIL that mathematicians don’t know how big of a sofa you can fit around a corner.
yQ8oV TIL Ernest Hemingway had often complained the FBI was tracking him, but was dismissed by friends and family as paranoid. Years after his death released FBI files showed he had been on heavy surveillance, with the FBI following him and bugging his phones for nearly the final 20 years of his life
QJDLa TIL the Founder of The North Face died of Hypothermia in Chile in 2015
BExe TIL NYPD ex-cop Adrian Schoolcraft secretly recorded corrupt activities for 17 months in 2008, leading to a huge scandal and 4 separate investigations into NYPD. He recorded illegal arrests, superiors giving illegal orders, multiple rape reports getting downgraded to trespassing and more.
ne0Lb TIL about culture-bound syndromes, psychiatric/medical disorders that are only found in specific cultures/groups.