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TIL A parking meter official got busted stealing $90,000 in quarters. Bank staff became suspicious because he was regularly depositing large amounts of coins into his personal account while still wearing his parking enforcement uniform.

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6Eb8Z TIL about Gordon, or "Whipped Peter", an enslaved African American. The pictures of his scourged back provided Northerners with visual evidence of brutal treatment of slaves. Abolitionists distributed the pictures throughout the United States and internationally to show the abuses of slavery.
0L1p TIL the word myriad means 10,000, but it can also mean a generically large number. It’s also okay to say “there’s myriad cats” or “there’s a myriad of cats”
nZDd TIL that apple orchards rent thousands of bees in hives from bee keepers to pollinate their trees in the spring. After a couple weeks when the trees have been pollinated the bee keeper comes back for his hives and transports them to the next orchard in need.
XDg6 TIL that after many publishers claimed the original Harry Potter novel “was too long for a children’s book”, Nigel Newton, chairman of Bloomsbury Publishing agreed to read it as a favor, but tossed it to the side, only for his 8 year-old daughter to find it, read it, and demand more.
P1nxO TIL that a man notorious for killing people with an axe in New Orleans sent a note to the police which he stated he would attack the town but any house that played jazz music would be spared. That night across the city, people flooded into bars and houses blasting jazz. Nobody died that day.