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4XvQg TIL that many small towns finance their governments by issuing traffic tickets. In hundreds of US counties fines are used to fund 10-20% of the local government budget.
KaZa TIL that Albuquerque, NM, started paying the homeless to clean up homeless camps around the city. The participants must work hard and on average five to six hours a day. In return they get $9 an hour plus a lunch of sandwiches, chips and granola bars
wmN7 TIL that in 1975, Morgantown, WV (Pop. 30,000) built a personal rapid transit system that comes at the push of a button, skips the stations you don’t want and is still carrying 15,000 people/day today