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TIL that a man served 5 months in Rikers Island Prison because no one told him his bail was only $2.00.

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QNNge TIL The discovery of vitamin D curing rickets in the 1930s led to the fortification of common foods. This took the statistics of approximately 80–90% of children showing varying degrees of bone deformations due to vitamin D deficiency to being a very rare condition.
OodO1 TIL that for the first 10 years that payphones existed, they worked on a honor system and callers would pay for their call after completing it.
7wD7 TIL that the Denver police uses a Smelloscope to find pot smokers that don’t comply with the Denver “odour ordinance”
GAWJJ TIL it is illegal to run out of fuel on Germany's Autobahn
9Y0oX TIL in 1864 when Congress reintroduced the Nickel currency bill they wanted the likeness of Clark on the bill, in reference to soldier William Clark, however the head of the Currency Bureau Spencer M. Clark used his own likeness, which directly led to the abolishment of the Nickel currency bill.