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TIL that the NYPD actively profiles citizens in order to meet “performance standards” aka quotas or else officers get penalized for not having enough “stop and frisk” arrests and summons

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EbB7 TIL that in the early days of baseball, players would often steal across the field from first base to third.
5Y05B TIL that a 2017 study about fitness trackers found higher rates of error when the trackers were used by people with darker skin tones.
6ApZ TIL that Italian doctors have saved the life of a 16-month-old boy by implanting the world’s smallest artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a donor was found for a transplant
JYDn1 TIL if you drilled a tunnel through the center of the Earth and decided to jump in it, you would emerge on the other side in about 42 minutes.
bgX9 TIL that São Paulo, the world’s fourth largest metropolis, banned all outdoor advertising with no ill effect. “The law is now so popular that some companies that were able through legal action to maintain some outdoor presence chose not to, so as not to be seen as flying in the face of [it]”