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TIL that in Finland, speeding tickets are charged as a percentage of your income

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Ej57 TIL that 2 people in Greenland died of botulism after eating poorly prepared Kiviak, a delicacy in which a seal is stuffed full of birds then left to ferment. The family of the first victim - not knowing that the meal caused his death - served it at his funeral, leading to the death of his daughter.
b8oE TIL that 95% of the avocados on sale in the world are descended from a single tree planted by Rudolph Hass, a Milwaukee postman, in 1926.
p89KG TIL about the residents of a neighborhood complaining of mysterious ailments from a new cell phone tower. During a meeting the owner revealed that the tower had been off for over a month. Residents didn’t show up to the followup meeting
NXl7E TIL that from 2007 to 2021, suicide rates for Americans ages 10 to 24 rose 62%, according to the CDC.
1aDZP TIL that during the Battle of Boulogne on 23 May 1940, a shell from the British ship HMS Venomous made a German tank turn "over and over, like a child doing a cart-wheel".