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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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7Mer TIL When Brian De Palma was forced to recut ‘Scarface’ to achieve a rating of R instead of X, he argued that the changes were so minor that no one would notice if he released the X-Rated version anyway. So that’s exactly what he did, and he was right: no one noticed.
VMLbk TIL there is a hidden "Hall of Records" carved into Mount Rushmore that contains 16 porcelain enamel tablets describing the project and a short US history. They are kept in a teakwood box, sealed inside a titanium vault.
djOZ TIL there was a massive ancient civilization in Illinois. In 1250 the lost city of Cahokia was larger than London. Today more than 120 massive earthen mounds are still located on the site.
16gK8 TIL, in 1998 it took several days to bring down a rogue 25-story tall Canadian weather balloon even after two F-16s fired more than 1,000 rounds of cannon shells into it. The balloon had severe impact on trans-Atlantic air traffic as airliners were forced to divert from their projected flight paths
vPLKL TIL that Matthew McConaughey has a brother named Rooster, who named his son Miller Lite and his daughter Margarita