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TIL that in the US, you have a constitutional right to appear in court in normal clothes because wearing prison scrubs influences the jury

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b95k4 TIL in addition to the more familiar AMBER Alert, Texas has two additional codes: CLEAR Alerts for abducted adults between 18-64 and Camo Alerts for missing active duty military or veterans with mental illness and/or injuries.
wL8mo TIL there has been so much human feces in the San Francisco BART escalators that it causes them to stop working
xV6yw TIL Buddy from Air Bud died of cancer just one year after filming the movie. He died in 1998 at the age of 10.
x6AjD TIL that in 1973, Canadian Rosella Bjornson became the first female commercial airline pilot in North America.
nel7P TIL that when the German army broke through French lines in 1918, a small battalion of US marines disregarded general orders to retreat and dug shallow holes with their bayonets. The German advance was stopped after six days of fierce fighting, and the marines had been given a new name-- Devil Dogs.