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TIL New York City once had two competing police forces - city and state - who rioted in front of City Hall

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01R1 TIL the Slovakian women’s hockey team qualified for the 2010 Olympics by beating Bulgaria 82-0, and then lost to team Canada in Vancouver 18-0
xVL95 TIL that your life really does flash before your eyes when you die. A study interviewing participants with "near death" experiences found that they re-witnessed very emotional experiences again, and lost all sense of time. One subject said "It was like being there for centuries."
1Omr TIL 1996 was the first year over half of Americans approved of interracial marriage
eo9L TIL in 1988, a man named Robert W. Faid published a book mathematically “proving” that the Antichrist was Mikhail Gorbachev, with odds of exactly 710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1. He later won an Ig Nobel prize for it.
Oo6k1 TIL that Whitesnake changed the word "hobo" to "drifter" in the re-recording of "Here I Go Again" to ensure that it would not be misheard as "homo".