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TIL In 2009 4 Ferguson City Police Beat A Man Bloody And Then Charged Him With The Crime Of Bleeding On Their Uniforms After They Discovered They Had Arrested The Wrong Man.

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4r45 TIL Elvis Presley once asked his limo driver, “Do you own this limo or do you work for the company?” He responded, “I work for the company.” Elvis said “Well, you own it now.” The limo driver’s tip was the limo.
QNk4X TIL that The Lion King was intentionally modeled after Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
mx4lE TIL a woman named Edith Roller kept a journal of her life in the People's Temple until she died with 918 other Americans during a mass suicide in Jonestown.
8aJx8 TIL that the often quoted 10:1 ratio of bacterial cells to human cells is actually closer to around 1:1
OKYX TIL that American soldiers used the ace of spaces as a terror weapon in the Vietnam War. They would leave the card on the bodies of killed Vietnamese and would litter the forested grounds with the card. The card was used so much that Bicycle was asked to produce crates full of this one card.