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TIL Speeding tickets in Finland are determined by the driver’s annual income and a man once received a $200,000 fine for driving 50 mph in a 25 mph zone.

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WkeOo TIL the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon was created to sell the toy line by Playmates. They'd produce toys based on the darker indie comic only if they got a cartoon to promote it. They got different colored masks so kids could tell them apart and toned down drastically so parents wouldn't mind
R4l8 TIL San Francisco Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Briggs has talked approximately 200 people out of suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge sine 1994
R5op4 TIL lava scabers exist naturally, not just as a human bred morph
QgE9 TIL there was a 10,000 bedroom Nazi hotel that was never used
nWk1r TIL that in response to "Brown vs Board of Education", the State of Georgia passed legislation to close de-segregated public schools, to abolish attendance requirements for desegregated schools, and to fund the establishment of white-only 'private schools' in their place.