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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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a8wGM TIL Dr. Richard M. Bucke, Medical Superintendent for the London Asylum for the Insane 1877-1902, advocated gynecological surgery on women as a treatment for insanity. In over 200 surgeries on women including 16 hysterectomies, he claimed 71 of his patients were cured or their mental health improved
Oy7a TIL CPR only has an 8% effectiveness. However, many believe it is much more effective because on TV it has a 75% effectiveness and 67& of the characters who had been given CPR lived to leave the hospital.
R7x1j TIL Chip Douglas first demonstrated it for the Turtles' vocalists H. Kaylan and M. Volman on a harmonium with a broken bellows, requiring him to play the song slowly. The slower tempo impressed Kaylan and Volman and consequently, the Turtles' recording of the song uses this slower arrangement.
4XA0b TIL that the identity of the "House of the Rising Sun" is unknown. Only 3 buildings in New Orleans ever had the name 'Rising Sun' during the time the song emerged. Some theories say it was a hotel, a brothel, a jailhouse, or a Creole mansion. Some believe that it never actually existed at all.
nW87 TIL astronauts have a patch of Velcro inside their helmet so they can scratch their nose.