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TIL Houston police officers are no longer allowed to use Whataburger number tents as crime scene markers

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R57l4 TIL people spend over $336 BILLION on lotteries every year
d8EnQ TIL that gargoyles on a 15th century church in Loire-Atlantique, France, now include Gizmo and a Gremlin from "Gremlins" and the xenomorph from "Alien." The characters were added when the centuries-old church was restored in the 1990s.
69RMw TIL that Candles have been used for over 5,000 years, dating back to the ancient Egyptians who made candles from beeswax and tallow.
4kBva TIL that caste classifications were used by colonial officials in India to formulate land tax rates, as well as to frequently target some social groups as "criminal" castes and castes prone to "rebellion"
oBekr TIL that the Southern Pacific Comapy, while best known for its railroad operations, also owned and operated telegraph and telephone lines under the name Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony, which would later become the telecommunications company known by the acronym "Sprint."