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TIL in some cities, officers are required to activate a head-mounted camera to document interactions with civilians

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5VrOr TIL that women are traditionally prohibited from entering a sumo ring. This tradition is so strictly enforced that in 2018 two women were asked to leave the ring even though they were preforming CPR on a man who collapsed in one.
v1dDK TIL of Krista and Tatiana Hogan, conjoined twins at the head. The twins “share senses of touch and taste, and can even control one another’s limbs.” They can also hear each other’s thoughts without having to speak and see through one another’s eyes.
YLPG TIL That both Jedi Master Yoda and Miss Piggy are voiced by the same actor.
WmYA TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
A9od TIL Ng Mui, a legendary Shaolin nun, met a teenage girl named Yim Wing-Chun who was being harrassed into marrying a thug and taught her how to defend herself. Hundreds of years later, Bruce Lee would learn what is now called Wing-Chun, a form which was specifically made for a woman by a woman.