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TIL Volkswagen paid a $120k fine to the EPA in 1973 for using “defeat devices” to disable pollution-control systems

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Vn8Q TIL there is a mile-long zipline in Hoonah, Alaska, that starts 1,300ft above sea level and reaches speeds of up to 60mph.
M7XQ8 TIL of the Window Tax, where England homes would be taxes according to the number of windows they had, leading to windows getting boarded up to avoid the excess tax.
woDwJ TIL that Texas is the only state to have licensed dealers legally allowed to sell the Schedule 1 substance, Peyote. However they are only allowed to sell to people with a Certificate of Indian Blood.
5p69 TIL California does not having gerrymandering problems because of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, an independent organization that determines district boundaries without favoring a particular party or group
wZno TIL that Chuck Jones created Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner as a parody of chase cartoons like “Tom and Jerry”, not expecting that its purposefully ridiculous contraptions and nonsensical cartoon physics would make it popular.