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TIL Bob Dylan was arrested for walking around a neighborhood outside of New Jersey in the pouring rain. Residents called reporting a strange man lurking around. The 24 yr old cop had no idea who he was even after he told her his name.

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mxZNo TIL of the ‘Wheaton Bandit’ who robbed 16 banks in the mid 2000s, but had the statute of limitations expire on his crimes
wLdNE TIL that in addition to planting apples, Johnny Appleseed was also responsible for spreading the invasive and problematic dogfennel weed over much of early America, wrongly believing it to be good for treating malaria.
VBY40 TIL Bulldogs are named for Bull-Baiting, a 'sport' where a bull is chained to a stake and set upon by dogs
e0L1D TIL the Endurance Expedition crew was shipwrecked and stranded in the Antarctic in 1914 for two years, and miraculously the entire crew survived.
a98y TIL that at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp where Jewish prisoners forged the perfect counterfeit Bank of England note, the prisoners marked them with a pinhole in the Britannia (Roman Goddess of Britain) on the note, showing that they were forged.