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TIL in 2008, Plainclothes cops jumped out of a van, snatched up a 12-year-old girl, and beat her during a prostitution raid. After discovering that they had the wrong house, they charged her with assaulting a public official.

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oBeNA TIL world’s tallest man (7-foot-9) saved two dolphins by pulling plastic material out of their stomachs with his long arms.
E1JD0 TIL about the Eisriesenwelt, a natural limestone and ice cave in Austria. It is the largest ice cave in the world, extending more than 42km and the frozen lake inside the cave, during the Second World War, was used by skating athletes to train for the Olympics.
1Vdr TIL that in 1937 a 15-year-old growing up in St. Petersburg, Fla, was listening to a short-wave radio and picked up Amelia Earhart’s last radio transmission. She took notes and tried telling the authorities. No one believed her.
rDme TIL that in 2017, Norway will be the first country in the world to shut down FM radio and go digital instead. Norway plans to switch to DAB (which stands for ‘Digital Audio Broadcasting’), since FM is eight times more expensive.
X0vJQ TIL that Paul McCartney and Wings’ third album, Band on the Run, was mostly recorded by Paul, his wife Linda, and guitarist Denny Laine, as guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Danny Seiwell quit the band before their flight to Nigeria to record.