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TIL American Police killed more people in March (111) than the entire UK police have killed since 1900

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8eeRZ TIL the white face paint worn by geisha's and samurai in ancient was lead based and lead can be detected in their bones.
69NGX TIL that in 2000 Nintendo, after receiving numerous complaints about children getting hand injuries by playing Mario Party, settled the case and agreed to provide up to four protective gloves to each household of consumers who own the game (up to $80mil), and also cover the cost of investigation
16OnD TIL Michael Bay worked for Lucasfilm as a teen. When he filed the storyboards for Raiders of the Lost Ark, he thought it would be terrible. His opinion changed when he saw the final product, and it set him on his path to become a filmmaker.
D1YlJ TIL An Ohio judge once sentenced a woman to sit in the "stinkiest, smelliest" area of a garbage dump for 8 hours, as a punishment for neglecting her dog. "If you puke, you puke."
rNVoy TIL in the 1960s, Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes came with whistles which coincidentally had the specific frequency (2600 hertz) required to exploit a vulnerability of in-band signaling enabling a phone to make free calls by entering an 'operator mode'.