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TIL Los Angeles has a metro system

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Mg18 TIL that Peter the Great implemented a beard tax in hopes of modernizing Russia. People who payed the tax were given a token that said “the beard tax has been taken” and “the beard is a superfluous burden”.
loVjK TIL: A group of caves in Spain called Cuevas de la Araña contain multiple ancient cave paintings. One such painting is called the "Man of Bicorp" depicting a caveman holding onto vines to gather honey from a beehive, estimated to be around 8000 years old.
5YkEQ TIL there are now more Spanish-speakers in the United States than there are in Spain.
Wo1d TIL that in early draftings of Star Wars, storm troopers carried lightsabers, and there were female storm troopers.
rNR0e TIL the Greek orator Demosthenes was said to treat his speech impediment by talking with pebbles in his mouth and shouting above the roar of the ocean waves.