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TIL "To protect and to serve" is a only PR stunt from 1963... With no law repercussions

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xVvbw TIL Eight "Sea Shepherd" activists were arrested in 1979 for violating the Seal Protection Act, for spraying a thousand seal pups with permanent red dye; rendering their pelts useless for hunters.
WO0o TIL Basque is a Native language to Europe, dating back to the Stone Age, being older than Latin or Greek, and has no related languages.
GAAPG TIL Norway have polar nights when the sun never rises for several months
e0lE4 TIL abou the paradox of intolerance, which states that a society with unlimited tolerance will be destroyed by the intolerant because said society would tolerate them.
gr0QL TIL that the heaviest UK coin made for circulation was the 1797 copper tuppence, coming in at a whopping 57 g, weighing as much as ten American quarters and more than 6.5 times heavier than the modern £1 coin. It was worth the same as two pennies.