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TIL in 2016, Amsterdam Police officers broke down a door to rescue a woman in lingerie standing listlessly at a window. Worried she may be hurt, they first tried to get her attention by ringing the doorbell and banging on the door. They then broke the door down to discover she was a blow-up sex doll

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X0NQ TIL that Brazil has a 120% tax on video games because of an old law that classifies all games as gambling…
4kp6a TIL the First Saint Patrick's Day Parade was held in America in a Spanish colony in what is now St. Augustine, Florida.
p8QwA TIL that Nike fabricated a story about the Air Jordan 1 shoes being banned by the NBA and Jordan being fined every time he wore the shoes on the court which created a tale of defiance and "brazen charisma" that came to define the Air Jordan brand.
LEKv TIL: A new law in California protects drug users from criminal drug charges if they are seeking medical attention for OD victim.
OGG07 TIL of the August 26, 1980 Harvey’s Lake Tahoe casino bombing. 3 men in maintenance uniforms rolled in a device covered in cloth labeled IBM to a 2nd story empty office with a note demanding $3 million. The FBI was forced to detonate it after failing to defuse it