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TIL There is a bill aimed to protect Texans who record cops.

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LKX0 TIL that there was once a breed called the Turnspit Dog, also known as the Kitchen Dog or Cooking Dog. They were bred to help in kitchens by turning a wheel that ensured that meat was cooked evenly. The breed is now extinct.
J9Zm TIL Federal prosecutors built a hacking case against a John Kane, a man who raked in half a million dollars exploiting a minor glitch in a video poker machine. Kane’s lawyer said, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” They won
OL7g TIL in the last moonwalk of the Apollo 15 mission, in view of a TV camera, astronaut David Scott used a feather and hammer to demonstrate Galileo’s theory that all objects in a given gravity field fall at the same rate, regardless of mass (with no air drag). They both hit the ground at the same time
WkPo TIL that “Django Unchained” will become one of the over thirty unofficial sequels to 1966’s “Django”
ne5Jd TIL Japanese writer Kōbō Abe wrote surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society. His experiences in Manchuria deeply influenced his writing, imprinting terrors and fever dreams that became surrealist hallmarks of his works