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TIL Liverpool is the first city to open a fast-walking lane in response to residents complaining about chatters, pavement hoggers, and phone-watchers in the shopping area of St John Street

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1a5R8 TIL Michael Jackson tried to have Eminem's 'Just Lose It' video taken down due to a diss. Jackson bought the rights to all of Eminem's works and Sony just only reclaimed the rights in 2016
ZpPOB TIL that the growing difference in car sizes in the USA means that as many as 25% of deaths would be prevented if everyone drove the same type of car — or 9,300 people/year
5V51p TIL about Alan Magee, "the Miracle of Saint Nazaire"a B17 gunner who fell approximately 20,000 feet without a parachute, and survived crashing through the skylight at the railway station in Saint Nazaire (France). He survived the war as a POW, and lived until 2003.
X6DP TIL that Rin Tin Tin, a German shepherd that starred in many silent films, almost won the first Oscar for best actor but the Academy, “believed that this new idea of handing out these Oscars could possibly be damaged by the first Best Actor being a dog.”
8eeyZ TIL Pirates wore eye patches, so they could see better in the dark, and it had nothing to do with an eye missing.