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TIL a 16-year veteran Police Officer filed suit against his department alleging he was twice passed up for promotion and denied chances for overtime because he refused to profile young drivers for traffic tickets

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e098D TIL of Joseph Grew, the US ambassador to Japan during the lead-up to WWII, who in Jan. 1941 heard rumors in Tokyo that the Japanese were preparing a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in case of a break with the US. Grew even alerted the US State Department.
Oo5y6 TIL In 637 AD, Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang visited Nalanda university. He saw that it had 10,000 students from all over the world and around 2000 teachers Mahayana, Vedas, Shastras, Sankhya, Medicine, Linguistics, Etymology, Economics, Weaponry and Archery was taught to the students.
VBBvk TIL That after the ITV kid's show Rainbow was cancelled in 1991, the host Geoffrey Hayes worked as a shelf stacker in Sainsbury's and as a taxi driver. Despite trying to get into serious acting, supposedly directors couldn't disassociate him from Rainbow.
l79MK TIL “That’s Crazy”: Why You Might Want to Rethink That Word in Your Vocabulary - Penn Medicine
M76m7 TIL that the actress who spoke the line "not bloody likely" in the original production of Pygmalion was risking her career.