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TIL: The New York Transit authority dumped over 2,500 subway cars into the Atlantic Ocean.

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DV4e TIL a man named Robert Wiggen, who spent 3 years in prison, started a website that posts mug shots taken from police department websites and makes them easily searchable on sites like Google and then charges money to have the images removed. His own mug shot is absent from the site.
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