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TIL a Broward County, Florida man has had 16 accidents, received 25 warning slips, and served 30 days unpaid suspension since 1994 due to bad driving. He is a Mass Transit bus driver for the county and, although his disciplinary troubles began only 8 days after he was hired, he is still employed.

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loVKV TIL that "nail houses" are buildings in China that are left standing alone whilst massive development progresses around them, usually looking really awkward and out of place when the project is done. This happens because their owners refuse to leave their homes and the development progresses anyway.
ADaOg TIL after winning the gold at the 1980 Olympics, Polish vaulter Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz, in defiance of the jeering Soviet crowd, flipped "the arm", twice. The Soviets later asked that he be stripped of his medal to which the Polish government replied that it was caused by "involuntary muscle spasms".
YNpd TIL that there are still racially segregated proms in the U.S.
gMNM9 TIL that an old form of pregnancy test involved injecting rabbits with urine and then killing the rabbit to investigate its ovaries.
Agl4 TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated when high levels of dioxin were discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.