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TIL A man apprehended a drunken police officer and locked him in the back of his own vehicle.

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4Xar6 TIL that, during the 1813–1814 Malta plague epidemic, concealing infection and moving between districts were made capital offenses
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VMZjG TIL: The 'secret' nuclear missile launch code during the Cold War was '00000000'