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TIL that US courts have ruled that police departments can refuse to hire someone considered to be ‘too smart.’

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5A6D TIL Red Lobster lost $3.3 million dollars during a 7 week promotion in 2003. Each restaurant started losing money on the third plate of crab legs served.
loyQr TIL Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, once advised JFK on a way to overthrow Fidel Castro. Fleming reasoned Castro's trademark beard was his key to power. So he advised JFK to announce that beards attract radiation. Castro would then immediately shave off his off and soon fall from power.
0ny1 TIL that Robert Liston is the only surgeon to have a 300% mortality rate - the patient, the surgical assistant and a spectator all died
b9RJ9 TIL during the Kent State shootings, where the National Guard shot at and killed students protesting the Vietnam War, 58% of Americans believe it was the students' fault for the shootings
VwAQ TIL that Tim Russ, who played Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager also played the Spaceballs trooper that said, “We ain’t found shit!”