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TIL That most of the Streetlight buttons in cities like NYC, Boston and Seattle dont actually function anymore. they have been left in place to give pedestrians a placebo illusion of control over traffic flow.

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XEA0j TIL in 1974 Hunter S. Thompson was sent by Rolling Stone to cover the important "Rumble In The Jungle" fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, but was unable to file anything, having spent the fight drunk in his hotel's pool.
0d4EN TIL higher-ups at McDonald's once created a 'McResource' page for their minimum-wage employees. The page included advice on how much they should be tipping their personal trainers, massage therapists, and pool cleaners.
Pebn TIL that South Korea is the world leader in.. suicides. Currently there is an average of 31.7 suicides per 100,000 people. Only .1 more than Lithuania’s 31.6 suicide rate which is the second highest.
N79eE TIL that the ancient Incas performed skillful brain surgery with a roughly 80% success rate. In comparison, 500+ years later, Civil War doctors only had a success rate of 50%
dgQr TIL Soviet Finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan once saved 20 people from a drowning trolleybus at the bottom of a 25 metres (80 ft) offshore at a depth of 10 metres (33 ft). He spent 45 days in a coma after this heroic act. Then he saved people from a burning building.