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TIL Metropolitan Police lost trademark battle with BBC over Police Box

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VXXp TIL that 132 wallets were “lost” in NYC as part of an experiment, and only 2% of them were taken. Wallets were more likely to be taken on the Upper East Side, where median family income is as high as $126,000.
Yp9gx TIL Fleetwood Mac's album Tusk broke the record for the most expensive album production, costing over $1 million ($3.5+ million in today's money) to record.
rNMOM TIL that Australian convicted criminal, gang member and author Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read refused a liver transplant, saying, "I'm 55-years-old; I'm not going to put my name down against some 10-year-old kid."
Yvv7 TIL that “Pixel” is short for Picture Element
x6mw1 TIL that the portrait of Carlotta Valdez featured in an iconic scene of Vertigo has gone missing and has not been seen since 1957.