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TIL that in 2009, Chicago Police Department went retraining because of one teenage boy impersonated a cop and worked full shift

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wLgQW TIL that the Black Crowes album "Amorica" featured a controversial album cover taken from an iconic Hustler magazine cover that showed pubic hair sticking out of an American flag string bikini. It was banned, and a new cover was issued blacking out all but the flag bikini.
60MX TIL that homeless children in Miami in the 1990s developed an elaborate folk mythology that was spread by oral tradition.
xGJk TIL Judge Denny Chin received no letters of support for Bernie Madoff’s character, and chose to sentence him to the maximum sentence of 150 years
kJO5E TIL that during the Mexican-American war, General Winfield Scott used the highly risky tactic of abandoning his supply lines and foraging for needed supplies to continue his attack. One of his staff officers, William T. Sherman, would later use this tactic in the Civil War in his March to the Sea.
GA71N TIL in July 2014, former military leader of Panama, Manuel Noriega, filed a lawsuit against Activision for allegedly portraying him in Call of Duty: Black Ops II for depicting him and using his name without his consent. The lawsuit was dismissed on October 28, 2014.