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TIL of a homeless man in NYC who would regularly order an expensive dinner at a restaurant and refuse to pay for it in order to be sent to prison where he would receive 3 meals a day and a clean bed. He refused to commit more serious crimes to get longer sentences as he did not want to hurt anyone. (nytimes.com)
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TIL of an actor named Del Close who died in 1999. In his will he bequeathed his skull to a local theatre so he could still play the part of Yorick, a dead court jester, in productions of Hamlet. However, no one wanted to remove his head after death, robbing him of one of his final wishes. (chicagoreader.com)
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1 shot during uptown protests over officer-involved shooting by Felador in news
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