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TIL that the Netherlands is known today as a haven for pedestrians and cyclists, however, in the 1970s, a growing epidemic of traffic deaths led to a national movement called 'Stop the Child Murder.' The results transformed the public spaces and street into some of the safest in the world.

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0wQk1 TIL about the Kentucky Miner Who Scammed Americans by Posing as Hitler With ‘Invisible Spaceships’
W7L4L TIL that upon the storming of the Bastille and the release of prisoners, the facility had held only seven men captive, not hundreds. Eight prisoners would have been freed but the Marquis de Sade had been released ten days earlier.
GYrj TIL until the Great Depression, a man could be sued for monetary damages if he broke off an engagement; if he’d already had sex with his fiance, damages were “greatly increased.” (Oh, and guys, we have De Beers to thank for the “two months salary on a ring” expectation.)
8a5oG TIL there are some 5,000 words, mostly nouns, that the Turkish borrowed from the French language (and quite a few English ones too). If you speak French to a conversational level and you'r a native English speaker, you could learn Turkish in a few weeks.
Pagn TIL Andre the Giant, being too large for school buses, had to be driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett, his neighbor.