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TIL American's spend $6.232 Billion on speeding tickets per year

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xZAw TIL that Cristiano Ronaldo refuses to get any tattoos on his body just so he can continue on donating blood
e05kk TIL Hawaii's black sand beaches were created instantaneously when hot lava shattered as it reached the sea.
Znvp TIL when congress asked physicist R.R. Wilson to justify the US government spending millions of dollars on a new particle accelerator (Fermilab), Wilson testified that the knowledge gained from it would have “nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.”
l70oG TIL of a mother named Kathleen Folbigg, who was imprisoned for 2 decades for murdering her 4 children. Later, she would be pardoned by the Governor after it was discovered that the deaths were instead due to an extremely rare genetic condition.
E14y0 TIL: The Youngest Vietnam War Soldier Was 14 Years Old When He Joined And Was 15 When Killed In Action.