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TIL Boston police sent letters to 3,800 people wanted on charges ranging from shoplifting to drug dealing and invited them to be extras for a movie. 54 showed up, were met by officers posing as employees of a fictitious production company & escorted onto buses which took them to police headquarters

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ykra TIL that in 1999 a fisherman found a love letter in a bottle from a soldier in WWI. He returned the letter to his widow, who was still alive.
LkVnv TIL in South Korea, only visually impaired people can be licensed masseurs, dating back over 100 years to a Japanese colonial rule set up to guarantee the blind a livelihood.
69pZW TIL there’s a world surfing championship for dogs
nWlyP Today I learned McDonald's french fries supposedly tasted better prior to 1990. That is when McDonald's stopped using beef fat and began using vegetable oil with beef seasoning(making the fried not vegan or vegetarian).
V98Q TIL that the killer of Jacob Wetterling, an 11-year-old boy who was kidnapped in 1989 and went missing for 26 years, was actually questioned by the FBI less than two months after the boy’s abduction, but was let go. In 2016, he confessed to the killing – but he will not be charged.