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TIL The uniforms worn by the Alliance on Firefly are leftover costumes from Starship Troopers.

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XAOR TIL an inmate confronted Al Capone to get back when he cut in the line, Al asked him if he knows who he is and while holding scissors to Capone’s neck he replied: “Yeah, I know who you are, greaseball. And if you don’t get back to the end of that fucking line, I’m gonna know who you were.”
Vlkp TIL Snapchat’s expired snaps are not deleted, just hidden
loJO5 TIL that at 12:00 a.m. on New Years Eve 2017, three men pulled off a 6 MILLION dollar jewelry heist only a half mile from Times Square and 7,000 NYPD officers. Police said the men waited till midnight, when the officers would be the most busy, to break into KGK Holding Jewelry.
99mr TIL Alaska has the highest botulism rate in the U.S. and one of the highest worldwide. According to the CDC, close to 40 percent of food-borne botulism cases reported in the U.S. between 1990 and 2000 (103 of 263) occurred in Alaska, one of the least populous states.
ANDg4 TIL that in 1984, in Mt. Laurel, NJ (25 minutes northeast of Philadelphia, PA), a man released 120 Italian Wall Lizards around his home to combat an insect problem. The insect problem was not fixed and today there are thousands across the County.