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TIL Australia's first cops were all criminals. Their first police force was made up of 12 of the best behaved convicts.

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MeodB TIL That Limp Bizkit's music video for the song "Rollin" was filmed at the top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, and the song received the award for "Best Rock Video" at the 2001 MTV Music Awards on September 10th 2001. They also got a letter from the WTC thanking them for filming there.
b9Y09 TIL before becoming an iconic thriller, Stephen King's first novel "Carrie" was rejected by 30 publishers, causing him to give up and throw it in the trash. His wife retrieved it and urged him to resubmit it.
p8YJp TIL that prior to the 1970's the 2nd Amendment wasn't interpreted as an individual's right to bear arms, and that it has an entirely unnecessary comma.
ADg8g TIL that, while filming The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese suggested to Margot Robbie that her character Naomi would wear a robe to seduce Jordan. Margot insisted on being nude. She later explained: ‘‘The whole point of Naomi is that her body is her only form of currency in this world.’’
OoZJR TIL the inventor of the Nerf football is the all-time leading scorer for the Minnesota Vikings