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TIL a group of undercover Detroit police posing as drug dealers tried to arrest another group of undercover police posing as drug buyers.

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GYJDG TIL Charles Darwin never used the phrase “survival of the fittest” and actually argued against it.
VMJNm TIL The oldest continuously occupied residence in California is the Rios Adobe in San Juan Capistrano, built in 1794 for Feliciano Rios, a soldier at Mission San Juan Capistrano. The current owner 225 years later is Stephen Rios, an ex-Marine raising the 10th generation in the adobe.
BgO7L TIL that the planning documents for the lower Thames crossing (a proposed road crossing in England) are 359,866 pages long across 2,383 documents, and laid end to end would stretch 66 miles -- 5 times longer than the proposed road itself
M7OZb TIL Miranda Gibson lived on a small platform 60 metres above the ground in a 400-year-old Eucalyptus tree to protect the surrounding forest. A bush fire forced her to evacuate after 449 days but Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area was officially extended by 170,000 hectares a few months later.
grBoy TIL Denzel Washington, the actor who never watches his own films and shuns fame.