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TIL Stockholm, Sweden tested a “Speed Camera Lottery” where speed limit-abiding drivers were automatically entered into a drawing to win a prize pool funded out of fines paid by speeders.

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Zp6VG TIL magician Harry Houdini and his wife Bess created a secret code phrase (“Rosabelle, believe”) so she could verify any message from him after death. After Houdini died in 1926, Bess held séances for 10 years but concluded no real message came through.
mK9Y TIL: That until a couple of years ago homebrewing wasn’t officially legal in all 50 United States.
OGy0X TIL that the huns were fans of gold. TIAL (Today I also learned) that the vandals were originally a German tribe who were fans of art. TIAL that the goths were split into two; the Ostrogoths had a cathedral in Ravenna; Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo.
l7LVN TIL in Finland, molybdomancy, or predicting future through the shape of molten tin, is a tradition for New Year's Eve
V7am TIL in 1999 Kargil war Yogendra Singh Yadav climbed a 16,500 feet tall cliff captured by Pakistani soldiers, he was shot three times, he continued to climb the remaining 60 feet, he killed four Pakistani soldiers and engaged in hand to hand combat.