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TIL due to an oversight by the Metropolitan Police, the BBC now own the trademark of the blue police box (the TARDIS) instead of the actual police force

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jNYGE TIL House Sparrows and other birds have been known to use shopping carts as Trojan Horses to enter stores.
rjYd TIL lobsters used to be food for slaves and was used as fertilizer and fish bait. But that changed in the mid 1800s with the invention of canned food and railway transportation. Canned lobster became popular enough that people took trips to the coast for fresh lobster.
5Vo4R TIL that Manute Bol killed a lion as a young herdsman in Sudan
ADoyo TIL that Lusia Harris of Delta State University was the first woman drafted into the NBA taken in the seventh round of the 1977 NBA draft by the New Orleans Jazz.
97X TIL that crying releases excess stress hormones, thus creating the effect of feeling better after crying.