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TIL Originally the past participle was hoist and not hoisted as in "he was hoist with his own petard"

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Lpo9 TIL some Canadian police departments issue ‘positive tickets’ thanking citizens for doing something good.
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MeVX0 TIL that Apatheism is the belief that if a god exists, or not, it does not matter, because the effect is the same. Therefore there is no point engaging in worship or even positing the question of existence of the god at all.
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oBRMA TIL in 1994 a FedEx flight crew fought off a potential hijacker who was also a FedEx employee trying to commit suicide. They inverted their plane pinning him to the roof, and they almost flied at supersonic speed.