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r7b0 TIL that Apollo Robbins, a pickpocket magician, struck up a conversation with Jimmy Carter and Secret Service agents. Within a few minutes he emptied the agents’ pockets of everything except their guns.
gMBeA TIL that every former U.S president is guaranteed secret service protection for the rest of their life.
QNjoX TIL that in 1977 and 1979, several petitions were signed by a number of prominent French intellectuals, doctors, and psychologists calling for reforms to or the abolition of the French age-of-consent law.
8evJX TIL Emergency vehicles use a device that manipulates traffic signals to reduce response times and avoid collisions with traffic
GAxo7 TIL that the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic holds the bones of 40,000–70,000 people, and they’ve been turned into art. We’re talking bone chandeliers (with every type of human bone), garlands of skulls, and bell-shaped bone mounds in every corner.