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TIL Police Woman, a 1974-1978 NBC TV show starring Angie Dickinson about a female cop caused an avalanche of applications for employment from women to police departments around the United States & was President Ford's favorite show, cancelling a press conference in order to avoid delaying an episode

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0wKnM TIL There is an abandoned Apache 160 airplane in a skatepark in Detroit. According to its registration number, it was registered in 2019, but has been sitting abandoned since at least May 2020 when it was found by a documentary maker.
ZKlY TIL the song “Happy Birthday” is no longer in copyright and Warner Music has been sued for hundreds of millions of dollars in improperly collected royalties
gMp4y TIL in 1978 a group of men stole reels of the movie "The Brink's Job" at gunpoint and demanded a million dollar ransom for it's return. "The Brink's Job" itself was a movie about a heist that occurred 30 years prior, where nearly 3 million dollars was stolen.
6EM4W TIL that the reason some cops touch your car’s tail light during traffic stops is to leave fingerprint evidence. If the officer found himself in a dangerous situation, this would prove that he or she was present at the scene.
dDLXZ TIL about humorous variations of Murphy’s law. Some best ones include: Fetridge’s law which states that important things do not happen when they are supposed to, especially when people are looking & Patrick’s theorem: If an experiment works, you are probably using the wrong equipment