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TIL up to 30% of the traffic in cities is just people driving around looking for a place to park.

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0dWQM TIL Old typewriters have no exclamation point! They typed an apostrophe ' over a period .
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PMen TIL that Henry Darger, a Janitor in Chicago, spent his life writing a 15,000 page fantasy novel (with original artwork) that was only discovered posthumously.
kDE4 TIL that the names for upper-case and lower-case type come from the physical storage method for typeset letters.
vE1L TIL that the longest prison sentence ever requested was 384,912 years of jail, against a 22 years old postman accused of failing to deliver 42,768 letters