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TIL More than 14,000 needles are cleaned up from public spaces across Boston every week. Boston has four employees assigned to pick up used syringes and eight outreach workers who collects needles as they attempt to connect people to recovery services

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b9dOQ TIL a defector from the Russian GRU revealed that if war broke out with the US, Russian agents planned to poison the Potomac River with chemical or biological weapons, targeting the residents of Washington, D.C.
JYlkk TIL of Paddy the Wanderer, a beloved stray Airedale Terrier from Wellington, New Zealand who befriended workers, cabbies, and seamen; sometimes stowing away on visiting ships (said to have crossed Tasman Sea many times).
4pYN TIL A paraglider was sucked into a storm for over 40 minutes, passed out and reached a height of 32,000ft - higher than Mount Everest.
1aakW TIL prior to their music careers, Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten would often perform Alice Cooper covers on the streets for money. People would pay them to stop.
6EK0Z TIL in 2006 when the Japanese government announced that ear cleaning would no longer be considered a medical procedure, thus making medical licenses unnecessary for ear cleaners, a new type of business sprung up in Tokyo and other big cities: ear-cleaning parlors, which now number in the hundreds.