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TIL that a museum in a tiny Western Canadian town has one of only 17 remaining Avro Lancaster aircraft in the world, and its Lancaster is one of only 4 in the world which can taxi under its own power

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ma7y TIL in 1995 a plain clothes Boston Police officer was brutally beaten by his fellow officers after they mistook him for a fleeing suspect. BPD officers tried to intimidate and harass him into staying quiet afterwards.
b9rXQ TIL in 2018, a kitten named Pawfficer Donut was sworn in to the Troy, Michigan PD's "Feline Unit" to perform community outreach for the department as well as raise awareness for animal adoption. She replaced another police cat named Pawfficer Badges who got feline leukemia.
QplL TIL in the 50s a white man disguised himself as a black man and traveled to some of the most racially segregated parts of America. He found blatant acts of racism almost everywhere he went, and published a book about his experiences called Black Like Me.
ANpax TIl that the body of water Moses parts in the Bible is actually “The Reed Sea”. Scholars are unsure if this refers to the Red Sea.
1a6XW TIL the United States Treasury used to print 5 denominations of money larger than $100. They were used mostly as government transactions, and were all discontinued in 1969. It is illegal to be in posession of a $100,000 bill, a Gold Certificate, due to Executive Order 6102.