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TIL unarmed citizen crime patrollers called the Guardian Angels - set up to fight subway crime in NYC in 1979 - faked incidents with “muggers” and “rapists” in order to gain publicity.

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LQAM9 TIL about Mapinguari, a monstrous jungle-dwelling spirits from Brazilian folklore that protects the forest and animals. It's described as a former human shaman turned into a hairy humanoid cyclops and has a gaping mouth on its abdomen. Some claim it's a modern-day sighting of a giant ground sloth.
wL6d6 TIL: Pigeons can't walk without bobbing their heads
VMpYm TIL that the last German plane to fly over Britain during WW2 was a jet-engined bomber.
woOy7 TIL Synesthesia: Mystery of God’s Creation
6E1kZ TIL that Osama bin Laden loved sunflowers and one of al-Qaeda’s training centres was on his sunflower farm in Sudan