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TIL Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) lived long enough to shake hands with both John Quincy Adams and John F. Kennedy

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yEK8 TIL that “Hello Kitty” has no mouth. The mouthless phenomenon is “so that people who look at her can project their own feelings onto her face, because she has an expressionless face. Kitty looks happy when people are happy. She looks sad when they are sad.“
d80Vj TIL in 1987 a robbery suspect fled, half naked, into a showing of RoboCop in order to escape police. He became so engrossed in the movie he failed to notice police had evacuated the theater. It wasn’t until the the lights were turned on that the stunned man was taken into custody.
PYAGe TIL about Bass Reeves, the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River and a former slave. Over the course of his career, he had made over three thousand arrest, never got wounded (except for his hat and belt), and became one of Judge Issac Parker's most valued deputies.
Owla TIL that Boston police confused an LED display, with a picture of a cartoon character on it, for a bomb in 2007. This caused the Boston police to shut down part of a highway, part of the public transportation system, and costing $2M worth of “havoc in the city”
BrXQD TIL Between ages of 17 and 29, most men lose their child or juvenile hairline, distinguished by its relatively low, straight-across appearance, rounded corners. Only a small percentage of Caucasian men (around 5%) retain their juvenile hairlines for life