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TIL Some Canadian police departments give out ‘positive tickets’ to thank people for doing something good.

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NXpGJ TIL the 80s toys called M.U.S.C.L.E is actually an acronym for “millions of unusually small creatures lurking everywhere.”
MeypV TIL "After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, 365" USAF B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers "were destroyed under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The aircraft were stripped of usable parts, chopped into five pieces with a 13,000 pound steel blade and sold for scrap at 12 cents per pound."
oBBNo TIL that in a matter of minutes the Chicxulub meteorite impact (of dino killing fame) created a hole 30km deep and then an isostatic rebound higher than the Himalayas before collapsing.
woeB7 TIL about mail jumping, which is a way of delivering mail by jumping off a moving boat to a dock, putting mail into a mailbox, retrieving the outgoing mail, and then jumping back onto the moving boat. The USPS uses this method to deliver mail to houses on Geneva Lake from June 15 until September 15.
o8Wr TIL in 1960 the heir to the Coors beer fortune was abducted and murdered