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TIL in order to qualify to be a police officer in Japan, the student must obtain a black belt in Judo. In addition, courses are given in calligraphy, flower arrangement, tea ceremony, poetry writing, and Japanese flute to sensitize a police officer to the artistic side of human nature.

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ZpvEB TIL there is an alligator at Gatorland in FL missing half its top jaw. After rehab they named her Jawlene as a nod to Dolly Parton and she is thriving!
nek5B TIL of a man named Frank Amodeo who had a plan to become emperor of the world. He owned several private security firms employing 40,000 people, met with Bush in the white-house and regularly worked with intelligence agencies world wide. He was busted for tax fraud and he is currently in prison.
lo4AV TIL during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russians made a small "mouse" hole into a secure anti-doping lab and exchanged "clean" urine samples for those showing their athletes' PED use. Over 100 dirty samples were smuggled out by a Russian agent pretending to be a sewer engineer.
ANwpl TIL Zhang Shuhong was a Chinese businessman who committed suicide after toys made at his factory for Fisher-Price (a division of Mattel) were found to contain lead paint
M8YV TIL in major league baseball there has only been 30 left handed catchers who caught for a single inning in baseball, of those 30 only 23 completed 1 entire game, of those 23 only 5 played 100 games or more, and of those 5 only 1 played an entire career (800 games minimum) as a lefty.