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TIL Tattooing Was Illegal In NYC From 1961 - 1997

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NXwlQ TIL about the "invisible wall," an anomaly where workers encountered a strange "invisible wall" in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically charged polypropelene film in a factory. This "invisible wall" was strong enough to prevent humans from passing through.
5Y5x9 TIL: The “Imp of the Perverse” is the term for random thoughts or a person’s impulse to do something crazy like drive off a bridge.
GAnjE TIL Rifleman Khan was a German Shepherd dog awarded the Dickin medal in WW2 for saving his handler from drowning after their landing craft was sunk by artillery fire
oR9ME TIL Jews began arriving to Jamaica in the 1490s. By the 1700s they formed 18% of the capital's population and worshipped openly at both Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues. In the 1830s, they became full citizens of the nation - before many Jewish communities in Europe...
e0v44 TIL Christopher Hitchens was appointed the devils advocate for Mother Thesesas beatification in 2003. Saying "I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono"