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TIL: As of 2018, back-up cameras in new cars are not a "feature", they are a requirement.

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m1lNO TIL in the Australian state Western Australia, it is illegal to sell, buy, or deliver more than 50 kilograms (110 lbs) of Potatoes. the penalty for doing so is a fine of $2000 plus twice the cost of the potatoes
RoGj TIL that the US almost passed a bill to fill its rivers with hippos as a source of meat.
OdL TIL Japan and Kenya have a more favorable opinion of the United States than the United States does
EgyZP TIL in 1948, Paul Hermann Müller won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the potent toxic effects on insects by DDT. This pesticide was later on linked to deaths and adverse reproductive effects in both animals and humans.
QNxRe TIL British army tanks have a pair of eyes painted on them. A Chinese businessman insisted on this when he gave money for a tank during WW1. He said; "No got eyes, how can see? No can see, how can save? No can save, how can chop chop?" The 'Chinese Eye' is now a long standing tradition.