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TIL: To prove anti-minority bias, a white NYC prosecutor tried to get himself arrested by graffiti-ing City Hall … and it took five days of confessions and blogging before they arrested him.

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yQ6Wl TIL of Imber. A village in the UK that has existed since before Roman times, has written records dating to 967AD, is in the doomsday book, and that had every single resident evicted by the army in the 1920's, so they could practice urban warfare there.
xVloo TIL until 1979, Nicaraguan deaf students were stigmatized and barred from school. With deaf schools opening but no experienced teachers, teens developed a unique language. In 6 years younger students joining were fluent and versed in the new sign language, stunning linguists.
jNbyE TIL the American distributor of the 1976 Korean movie 아메리카 방문객 ("Visitor of America") added a plot-unrelated scene of Bruce Lee rising from his grave and named the English-language release "Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave".
9Y997 TIL that in the 1940s-60s, Melbourne's Sun Theatre cinema had a pram room, where babies in their prams were placed and given a number. If a baby started crying, its number was flashed on the screen to alert the parents
xGAk TIL The director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi also wrote the critically acclaimed “Ozymandias” episode of Breaking Bad.