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TIL that before his murder, actor Phil Hartman wanted to make a live action film based on one of his favourite characters, Troy McClure.

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PYBrZ TIL Police in Finland believe they have caught a car thief with the help of a dead mosquito they noticed inside an abandoned vehicle. Police saw that the mosquito had recently sucked blood and decided to send the insect for analysis, and the DNA matched the man on the Police Register.
Oov0L TIL by share of population, the largest empire was the Achaemenid Empire, better known as the Persian Empire, which accounted for approximately 49.4 million of the world’s 112.4 million people in around 480 BC
4kBJo TIL That RiteAid secretly used AI from 2012-2020 on their security cameras to identify shoplifters, without notifying anyone. They would send pictures to the employees of who to watch and often misidentified people of color more than others.
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