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TIL of Tom Justice, an Olympic cycling trial contender who robbed multiple banks, escaping on bike. During his crime spree, his own bike was stolen, he began a drug addiction, and started a masters degree.

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a84wN TIL that you are not supposed to rinse your mouth with water after brushing teeth or using a mouthwash, because the fluoride coating on your teeth helps protect against cavities and rinsing your mouth after dilutes the fluoride, making it ineffective. Instead, you should wait, preferably 20 minutes.
XEwjk TIL President Harry S. Truman was not given a middle name, only the initial S. The S honors his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young. There is controversy over whether or not the period after the S should be included, although Truman's own letters suggest he regularly used a period.
M7Z17 TIL in 2003 a British woman's chastity belt set off a metal detector alarm at Athens airport. She explained that her husband made her put it on to ensure that she didn't have an affair during her brief trip to Greece. She was allowed to fly on to London on the pilot's responsibility.
M7eJB TIL: After seeing The Doors perform in 1967, Iggy Pop was inspired to push the boundaries of his stage performance. He was one of the first musicians to stage dive. On several occasions, he took massive amounts of drugs, exposed himself, rolled around in glass, cut himself, and threw objects.
p88OQ Can you park a horse in New York City? That is to say, simply, can a person riding a horse in the city stop, dismount, tie up their horse, and go run an errand? The answer is more complicated than we thought, leading to more questions. First question being, how hard is it to find out whether something is illegal or not? Answer: without paying an attorney, it's a pain in the ass.