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TIL Ohio police can steal your identity and assign it to an undercover officer

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6xyQ TIL The term ‘Rat Pack’ was coined by Lauren Bacall. After a long night of partying in Las Vegas with Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Angie Dickinson, Bacall surveyed the party’s aftermath and declared to it’s participants, “You look like a goddamn rat pack.”
PYl8L TIL Nazi Germany destroyed the city of Warsaw virtually completely following an uprising that resulted in the 500k citizens being taken captive. Germany had plans to turn the city into a manmade lake to erase it completely from history.
1WR4 TIL that Led Zeppelin’s name came from an insult from members of The Who, commenting that Jimmy Page’s new project would “go down like a lead balloon”.
LQKw0 TIL about the trend Happy slapping (2005) where teenagers would randomly assault strangers and film it on mobile phones for entertainment.
16Rb8 TIL Astronaut Ronald Evans holds the record of more time in lunar orbit than anyone else in the world: 147 hours, 48 minutes. Evans had to perform a space walk on the trip home from the Moon in order to retrieve three camera cassettes outside the spacecraft