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TIL that a sleeping dragon is a homemade device protesters use that invovles handcuffing arms together in a PVC pipe and use other materials to make it harder for police to cut through

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VMpXZ TIL that North Korea's diplomatic mission to the UN has 1,300 unpaid NYC parking tickets going back to the 1990s, owing more than $156,000.
e0D56 TIL during WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
kOvDB TIL Concerned about the number of cobras in Delhi, British colonial officials created a bounty, only to discover secret cobra farms created to collect the bounty. When the officials shut down the program the farms released their snakes, meaning they had far more cobras than before they started.
GjMQ TIL That the sale of alcohol over 190 proof (Everclear) is banned in Maryland, so the manufacturer Luxco makes a 189 proof version and sells it exclusively to Maryland.
xKX0 TIL: In 1980 Terry Fox, a one legged cancer patient, ran 3339 miles across Canada in 143 days to raise awareness and money for cancer research before having to give up. He died aged 22 in 1981.