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TIL that a National Gang Threat Assessment report conducted by the FBI in 2011 classified Juggalos as a “loosely-organized hybrid gang.” This allowed law enforcement to pull over anyone driving a car sporting Juggalo-related paraphernalia without any other cause.

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ag7L TIL: If you play a professional sport, you need to pay an income tax. That is, to each state you play against. For a Red Sox player, this means 17 different tax bills.
BrLKx TIL the Chinese Baidu Baike is the world's largest encyclopedia, having 16 million articles.
L99v TIL that if you have served in the military, regardless of the branch of service, regardless of where you were deployed, and regardless of whether you served during a time of peace or a time of war, you are at a 60% greater risk of dying from ALS (motor neuron disease) and nobody knows why.
eyxk TIL that it is near impossible to incapacitate someone with chloroform against their will. It would tak nearly 5 minutes of constant inhanling to render a target incapacitated.
8VGP TIL that a 15 year old hacker hacked into the computers of the Department of Defense & NASA, gaining access to critical ISS code, and later committed suicide because of having ‘no faith in the justice system’