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TIL it is illegal to be homeless in the UK

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v1j5B TIL Fall Out Boy had planned to stage an impromptu concert in Washington Square Park; However, as they lacked a permit, they were told by NYPD that "picking up any instruments would earn [them] a trip to jail". The band ended up leading the audience in a sing-along instead.
5YWVB TIL Grapefruits grow in clusters like grapes, hence their name.
nW4A9 TIL about the Index Thomisticus, a 34 year long project beginning in 1946 to make a machine readable concordance of the works of Thomas Aquinas, that required manually recording 10,631,980 Latin words onto punched cards and took a total of 1 million hours of human work to complete
gVeA TIL that actor Sir Anthony Hopkins wrote a letter of praise to Bryan Cranston, telling him that his “performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen – ever.”
ooZA TIL the mathematician George Dantzig solved two of the most famous problems of statistics, because he came into class too late to hear that they were supposed to be unsolvable