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TIL: A man got a job as the chief of police with falsified credentials which included a picture of a fake Los Angeles Police Department badge bearing the serial number 714, rightfully belonging to the fictional Sgt. Joe Friday of “Dragnet.”

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Wkx5A TIL that Circuit city's exectutives, when suggested to by a consultant, opened a used car retailer that didn't charge transaction fees. That company, CarMax, is currently the largest used car dealership in the United States with 173 locations.
QJa6a TIL about Skateistan, an organization in Afghanistan dedicated to young people's education and skating. 50 percent of the children skating are girls because Afghanistan culture views it as a toy rather than a sport.
LkL5p TIL United Way set a world record by releasing almost one-and-a-half million balloons that resulted in unexpected disaster. The event was intended to be a harmless fundraising publicity stunt, but the balloons drifted back over the city, Lake Erie, and landed in the surrounding area.
wnj6 TIL Michael Cain was in “Jaws The Revenge” only for the pay-check and said, “I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”
Z8Pe4 TIL Anthropologist Don Kulick spent thirty years of research into the death of Tayap, the native language in Gapun, a remote village in Papua New Guinea. Kulick was threatened by local bandits, and a villager lost his life, which meant Kulick had to stop his work