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TIL the famous Neighborhood Watch sign has a name. Boris the Burglar was trademarked in 1972 by the (NSA) National Sheriffs’ Association

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Vwp8 TIL Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are once replied to a young boys fan mail with a hand drawn picture of one of his characters. The boy’s mother wrote back saying simply “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.”
l8E7 TIL Walt Disney designed emblems for WWII planes and submarines.
oBMP7 TIL The first female prisoner to be force fed was fighting for birth control
D1l6J TIL that in Moscow, packs of stray dogs will sometimes send out a smaller, cuter member to beg for food, apparently realising it will be more successful than its bigger, less attractive counterparts
8al0Z TIL A NCAA football coach was fired after a co-worker found pornographic videos of children on his cell phone. He fought the charges vigorously after being charged with 2 felonies. He was finally reinstated after 18 months after it was revealed it was his kids taking a bath.