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TIL, sex in Amsterdams VondelPark is entirely legal, as long as you clean up after.

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jgyj TIL in 1977 singer Tom Waits was arrested outside a coffee shop for trying to stop men from bullying other patrons.These men were plainclothes officers,and Waits was charged with disturbing the peace.Waits disputed the charge,was found not guilty,and successfully sued the police dept. for $7,500
yVg5v TIL a human brain uses 12 watts to think while, if it could, an AI system doing the same processing could use 2.7 billion watts
WkpbX TIL that a Scottish scientist discovered that finger prints were unique, & asked Charles Darwin to help him promote the idea. Charles Darwin shared this with his nephew, who then claimed the finding as his own.
PY9bE TIL that when Mister Rogers filed a police report on his car being stolen, it was returned 48 hours later with a note that read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
pY76b TIL a woman can become pregnant with a cancer rather than an embryo.