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TIL pigs are immune to snake venom, a trait shared with mongoose, honey badgers, and hedgehogs

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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.
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