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TIL that the Texas Rangers law enforcement agency, was constantly trying to shut down the Balinese Room nightclub on Galveston Island but their arrival would be tipped off by Balinese Room associates when the Rangers came down the bridge onto the island. The Rangers solved this by raiding by sea.

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grEM9 TIL The majority (65%) of the fire departments in the US are made up of volunteers. That means of the total 1,041,200 active firefighters nationwide, 676,900 have selflessly dedicate their time and service to their communities.
0dGay TIL Octopi are the only conscious invertebrates and have cognitive thinking abilities, individual emotions and personalities, and even form relationships with humans.
OaJ7 TIL that when Nickelodeon stole the Ren and Stimpy show from John Kricfalusi, they allowed him to retain the George Liquor character, as long as he didn’t become “a child molester or mass murderer,” to which John K. asked how many murders he would need to commit to make him a mass murderer.
VBXpk TIL of 'Newman Day', an unofficial holiday at some US Colleges, including Princeton and Yale, in which students aim to drink 24 cans of beer in 24 hours. Based on an apocryphal remark by Paul Newman, about "24 hours in a day and 24 cans in a case", the actor (an alcoholic) abhorred the 'holiday'.
4bWR TIL that Steven Spielberg still gets 2.5% of profits from Star Wars because while visiting the sets of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, George Lucas thought that movie would be a bigger hit than Star Wars. Spielberg disagreed and they both decided to trade 2.5% profit on each other’s films.