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TIL that in 1984 the Key West Police Department was declared a criminal enterprise.

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Lmep TIL at the Sanjusangendo Temple in Japan there is an annual competition to fire as many arrows through the temple as possible in 24 hours. The arrows can’t hit the floor, walls or the ceiling. The current record is 8133 successful shots out of 13,053 shots, set in 1686.
59lr TIL that since 2005, Staples has recycled 182 million pounds of plastic–roughly the equivalent of an aircraft carrier or 400 times the Statue of Liberty–via its printer ink and toner cartridge recycling program.
ljKK TIL that pickled ginger may be traditionally served with sushi due to its antiseptic and anti-nausea properties, which help counteract the consequences of eating spoiled food.
xljB TIL The first music video to be shot entirely with mobile phones was “Some Postman” by The Presidents of the United States of America
VNxB TIL that a Princeton professor recently proved that you can have identical snowflakes after growing them himself