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TIL NYC closed 14th street to private cars which led to improved traffic times and more bike ridership

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0JrA TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger used to give his fellow bodybuilders false advice so he’d easily beat them during competitions
N7Bk6 TIL that the Rwandan Genocide, which had a rate of 6 people being killed every minute for 3 months, has left 73% of it's survivors diaspora in Finland traumatised after 22 years.
GApe1 TIL That First Lady Abigail Powers Filmore was the Teacher to 13th US President Millard Filmore Prior to marrying him
VBJXp TIL: The entire internet weighs as little as a strawberry! Meaning I could hold the world wide web in my hand!
RP87 TIL that Ozzy Osbourne’s DNA has been sequenced to see how he’s still alive after a life of hard drug use and drinking. His full genome was sequenced and analysed by American researchers, who uncovered mutations related to addiction, metabolism, and Osbourne’s Neanderthal ancestors.