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TIL Adrian Schoolcraft, and NYPD officer, was arrested, involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility, and fired in 2006 for exposing corruption in NYPD

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NXro6 TIL that Big Bird was originally suggested as one of the candidates to go aboard the Challenger shuttle.
0wEgj TIL Billy Idol was James Cameron's first choice for the role of T-1000 in Terminator 2 but was recast due to a motorcycle accident
rRjx1 TIL Indonesia put a nation wide stop on manat ray fishing after it was calculated that a single animal is worth an estimated US$1 million over its lifetime in tourism versus its value of $40-$500 when killed
ANDj7 TIL that Nearly half of Americans (49%) have parallelophobia, or the fear of parallel parking. Only about half (53%) feel “very confident” in their parallel parking skills.
rNLao TIL that after singer George Michael crashed his car into the front of a 'Snappy Snaps' store in Hampstead, north London in 2010, somebody graffitied in the dent of the shop the word "Wham".