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TIL by a 5-4 supreme court decision, the thermal imaging of a home requires a search warrant

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J1prj TIL Damon Albarn, the lead singer of Blur, is also the co-creator and lead singer of Gorillaz
x69xk TIL that despite over 30 witnesses to the 1955 murder of Lamar Smith, veteran and Civil Rights activist, in broad daylight outside the courthouse of Brookhaven, Mississippi, no witness - who included the local sheriff - would testify in the case, and so the crime went unpunished
LkoQr TIL about gorillas in the wild with the ability and knowledge of how to dismantle poacher traps.
wopVY TIL There is a tradition in the US submarine fleet where the cribbage board of Richard O’Kane, one of the most famous US submarine commanders of WWII, is handed down to each oldest fast-attack submarine in the Pacific Fleet.
mYDM TIL Mr Rogers’ car was stolen and when it made the news, it was returned with a note saying “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”