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TIL that in 2008 in New Jersey, more than 30 officers, including SWAT team members, were engaged in a standoff with a non-responsive supposed bank robber for over an hour before realizing ‘she’ was a cardboard cut-out.

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8pWZ TIL The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) turns into a nightclub/lounge at night, where you can drink and explore every gallery after hours
rN9jy TIL that game-jump site is a cliff where native Americans would lure big game, such as Buffalo, to, in order to kill them without weapons. They would fall to their death, and the tribe would collect the meat
VMge4 TIL: We know how ancient Sanskrit sounded because in the fifth century BCE, the Indian grammarian Panini produced a complete grammar of the language, including how all sounds are pronounced. The complexity of his linguistic analysis wasn't replicated until the 20th century.
wLW7E TIL about Zachary Sabin, an 11-year-old child who died from water intoxication after drinking 4 bottles of water (each 0.7l) over 4 hours without eating anything. This happened after his parents forced him to drink water because his urine was dark.
yRMp TIL there is a lucky cribbage board that gets passed along from the oldest submarine in the US fleet to the next once the oldest one is decommissioned. It currently resides in a submarine launched in 1978.