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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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AD0kd TIL that at the age of 17, Richard Dean Anderson biked 5,641 miles from Minnesota to Alaska.
j6AxN TIL 200,000 to 600,000 pets were estimated to have been left behind in the evacuations from hurricane Katrina, as people were not allowed to take pets with them and pets were not allowed in sheltering places.
Wk9yY TIL Research shows that cats that are provided with empty boxes are more interactive, friendly and comfortable with the people around them as compared to those cats that do not have a box to snuggle in. So, it can be said that cats derive comfort and security from boxes.
oNDW TIL in 1876, a railroad bridge collapsed, dropping a train 76 feet into water below and killing 159 people. The President of the railroad had been allowed to design the bridge by an indifferent Engineer. The Engineer was later found with a bullet in his head.
rR6VW TIL that there are a handful of arthropods that grow tiny gardens on their backs as a form of camouflage and that those mini gardens support microscopic ecosystems of their own!