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TIL that more than half of all light mail in Denmark is delivered by bike. Due to the general city infrastructure, bikes are by far the easiest and quickest way to deliver letters in Denmark

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D1l5Y TIL Contract killings made up 5% of all murders in Scotland from 1993 to 2002
nexOo TIL of Phineas Gage, a man who had a large metal rod go completely through his head and destroy his brain’s left frontal lobe. Miraculously he survived, and was able to recover his social skills over time although people noted changes to his personality, behavior, and memory.
RXd9 TIL Cuba has an illegal underground network of computers mimicking the internet essentially making it the worlds largest LAN party
ZpaPp TIL that women die 17% more often in car crashes then men. In a frontal car crash with both sexes buckled in, their injury rate is also 73% higher.
LKr9 TIL In 1973, the US government stopped research into thorium based nuclear reactors as, unlike Uranium reactors, their byproducts could not be used to make nuclear weapons