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TIL Kinshasa, the capital of Congo-Zaire uses robots as traffic police because they can't be bribed.

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69YYZ TIL that in 1884 a 14-year-old Canadian Native boy was accused of a murder and was subsequently lynched by an American mob led by two men who were likely the real murderers
1507 TIL George Lucas gets paid every time you see an ad for the Motorola Droid. Because “Droid.”
RZV8 TIL of a monk who had taken an old book written by Archimedes, erased the contents, and wrote over it with prayers. Scientists have determined that that monk erased a previously unknown book by Archimedes, that laid out the foundations of Calculus thousands of years before Newton and Leibniz.
awgg0 TIL of John Wojtowicz, who robbed a bank to fund his partner’s gender reassignment surgery. In prison, they made a movie about the crime and he used the money he earned from selling the rights to finally pay for her surgery.
lJQ1 TIL Actor Shelley Malil, “What are we Al quaida?” from 40 Year Old Virgin is currently serving a life sentence for stabbing his girlfriend 23 times.