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TIL Banana Laffy Taffy isn’t “fake” banana flavor, it’s just based on a cultivar that is effectively extinct.

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kpWB TIL in 2012 the NYPD declared a couple to be “professional agitators” because they filmed videos of police conducting stop-and-frisks and uploaded them to YouTube. Cops posted their mugshots in a stationhouse and warned officers to be on guard against them.
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