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TIL that police in Northern Ireland played “ice-cream van” music in an attempt to calm youths attacking a vehicle with bottles… And it worked!

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wLgjM TIL: Hucksters and flim flam men plagued Iowa in the pre-WW1 years selling "patented" bridges that fell apart or washed away to naive county commissioners.
lwZN TIL of a vegetarian spider which eats the protein-rich buds of an acacia tree.
Kl09 TIL Chuck Norris was the first Westerner in documented Tae Kwon Do history to be awarded the rank of 8th Degree Black Belt Grand Master, which he received in 1990.
e0QLE TIL Kirsten Dunst made a video for a cover of 'Turning Japanese' in 2009
7aeZ TIL there is a vampire-like disease that can cause your nails to grow long and tear off, your teeth to sharpen like fangs and your skin–in some cases–to turn pale and easily bruise and scab in the sunlight.