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TIL During Bolvian election periods, alcohol sales are banned, it’s illegal to gather in large groups, no one can carry weapons, and 100% voter participation is encouraged by fines and penalties.

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EAVp TIL that OK Go wanted to distribute their album in the form of DNA and became the first band whose album was blocked by the FDA.
Nb76 TIL that there is an island town in Michigan that has banned motor vehicles except for snowmobiles and emergency vehicles. In the summer it’s a tourist attraction, but in the winter it has a population of 500 and is unreachable without a plane until the ice bridge forms.
91ZQ TIL When a Canadian nuclear reactor melted down in the 1950s, Jimmy Carter was one of the Americans sent to help. His crew built an exact replica of the reactor on a Tennis court to practice disassembling it, and had to enter and take apart the reactor one piece at a time, 90 seconds at a time.
Ookgg TIL during the Revolutionary War the smallpox epidemic threatened the troops of G. Washington so badly he forbade inoculating troops fearing that doing so would make too many sick and leave the army without sufficient strength. Washington himself had been exposed when young making him immune.
LkEPr TIL: A guy tired of people getting injured in potholes around city took to artistic vigilantism to get them repaired by drawing penis around them.