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TIL a DC cop once gave President Grant a speeding ticket for driving his horse and buggy dangerously fast, this was prior to the invention of cars.

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neG79 TIL of the 228 Incident, when the govt. of Taiwan massacred between 5,000 to 28,000 protestors, an event which was the precursor to the White Terror - a 38 year period of martial law - in which tens of thousands of other Taiwanese went missing, died or were imprisoned.
6NEm TIL 30-ft-long Manatees called Steller’s Sea Cows lived into modernity… within 27 years of being found by European hunters, they were extinct.
lD4B TIL The only character to appear, played by the same actor, in 10 different series is Richard Belzer’s Detective John Munch. He has appeared as this character in crossover shows ranging from X-Files to Arrested Development. His character has even been on five different TV networks.
N7VRP TIL Researchers have devised a microneedle skin patch that can turn energy-storing white fat into energy-burning brown fat locally to burn off pockets of unwanted fat such as “love handles” and treat metabolic disorders, such as obesity and diabetes.
4XZQN TIL a man lived undetected inside the Providence Place Mall (RI) for 4 years