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TIL in February 1961, East Orange, NJ police arrested 14 people from their beds at home after midnight. Their crime was failing to return library books that were more than four months overdue.

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pwZp TIL that the oldest retail store in America, founded in 1818, is Brooks Brothers. They are still open today and have a range of famous clients including Stephen Colbert and 39 out of the 44 U.S. Presidents. They also introduced several clothing innovations, such as the button down collar.
e08bb TIL: Babies’ cuteness is key to their survival. Cute babies are just extremely hard to ignore, and this is likely hardwired into human brains. Less cute children are treated differently.
PY15V TIL University of Michigan researchers discovered that couples who drank together reported negative attitudes toward their marriage. But the same study found that when one partner drank while the other abstained, marital dissatisfaction spiked.
7OlO TIL Andrew Johnson got “really, extremely, terribly, infuriously, youthfully drunk” after the death of Abraham Lincoln… and then continued to take his Presidential Oath of Office hungover.
VaKp TIL that, during the 1994 San Marino GP, Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger lost his life after a crash. On the very next day, world champion Ayrton Senna died on the same track. Among the wreckage of Senna’s car was an Austrian flag which he intended to raise after the race to honor Ratzenberger.