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TIL in 2016, a federal appeals court upheld the petty misdemeanor arrest of an Albuquerque middle school student accused of repeatedly disrupting his class with loud burps. The arrest was justified under a New Mexico law that prohibits anyone from interfering in the education process.

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VBdEB TIL of Henry Trigg, a 17th century grocer whose will requested to have his body placed in a coffin in his barn's rafters. Copies of his will were sold, and WWI soldiers later stole his bones. A horse-riding school replaced them with horse bones, explaining that having no bones would lose revenue.
QJyVd TIL the actor Martin Sheen has been arrested 66 times for protesting and other civil disobedience.
1vQr TIL that when asked about his political view Robert Downey Jr. said “you can’t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and come out a liberal.”
lAra TIL that the US allows US chickens to be shipped to China for processing and then shipped back to the US without notifying consumers the chicken came from China.
kbjm TIL a possible origin of the name Cerberus (the multi-headed dog of the Greek god Hades) is the Proto-Indo-European word k̑érberos, meaning “spotted”. Hades’ dog might have literally been named “Spot”.