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TIL Inspector Todd from the Beverley Hills Cop movies was a real Detroit cop and was involved in state wide corruption which also implicated Detroit mayor Coleman Young as depicted in the movie White Boy Rick.

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OoYV6 TIL that weeks after JFK's assassination, Russian intelligence started circulating stories that the CIA was involved in the killing and even covertly financed an American book promoting that theory that was published within a year
kJ7Nd TIL it would take 190 million years to read every possible permutation of Raymond Queneau's book "A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems" The book consists of 10 sonnets of 14 lines each, all sharing the same rhyme scheme and pentameter & cut to be able to mix and match poems 10x14th power different ways
gr7Py TIL that Carl Sagan has an archive in the Library of Congress, endowed by the creator of Family Guy. Seth MacFarlane put up an undisclosed sum to help the Library of Congress buy more than a thousand boxes of material kept by the late scientist and his wife and collaborator, Ann Druyan.
J1prj TIL Damon Albarn, the lead singer of Blur, is also the co-creator and lead singer of Gorillaz
VMw54 TIL Beetles are the most diverse order of life on our planet and have been around since the days of Pangaea.