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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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v1yj4 TIL about Unit 731, a Japanese complex that during WW2 performed lethal biological and chemical experiments to over 3000 people, carrying out some of the most notorious war crimes in Japanese history.
bawQ TIL Studies have actually shown that whiskey can successfully boost your cognitive performance and reduce your chances of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
16Qad Today I learned of the Summer Koshien, a national high school baseball tournament in Japan, which is the most watched sporting event in the country.
8lWb TIL that Mark Cuban once criticized someone by saying that they, “Would not even be able to manage a Dairy Queen.” Dairy Queen then took offense to that statement and offered Mark Cuban a chance to manage Dairy Queen for a whole day, which he accepted.
5YR4r TIL Disney made a knockoff Star Wars rockband in 1981 called HALYX. The band played one summer at Disneyland and featured among many characters a bass playing "wookie". One of the songs they performed in front of kids and teens at Disneyland was a song about Jailbait called, "Jailbait"