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TIL several California law enforcement agencies have destroyed records when forced to make them public by a new law

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9YBjG TIL Mongols have an ice fishing technique at Changan Lake that dates back over 2,000 years and is done in temperatures as low as -22C to -30C.
Ook5L TIL the Danish government permits adults and children to kill dolphins and whales with knives and lances at a public event on the Faroe Islands each year called “grindadrap.” They kill about 1,000 annually, or 1 whale or dolphin for every 50 Faroese people.
WkPrd TIL the actor Richard Edson -- who played the parking garage attendant in Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- was the original drummer for Sonic Youth before going into acting
EgVg7 TIL the second Rashidun caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab, a senior companion and father-in-law of the prophet Muhammad, was assassinated by a Persian slave in 644 who stabbed him with a double-bladed dagger, apparently due to Umar's refusal to lift a daily tax imposed on the slave by his slave master.
GAXwg TIL that Some octopus species lay 56,000 eggs at a time. These eggs are teardrop shaped, milky, and braided together in bunches by the female. Both male and female octopus die after reproduction.