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

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69yoQ TIL - The tallest mountain in the World is Not Everest
XRoX TIL that an engineer from Oregon bought a Boeing 727 and turned it into his home. He has been living in a retired airliner for six months every year since 1999.
l7e4A TIL that the studio that distributed the movie "Who Killed Captain Alex?", a 2010 Ugandan action comedy film produced on a reported budget of under $200, set up a Kickstarter campaign to raise $160 for a sequel. The studio was able to receive $13,181 and the sequel is currently in production
Bgr9K TIL that the movie Soylent Green was set in 2022.
8eRkL TIL that there's something called the "preparedness paradox." Preparation for a danger (an epidemic, natural disaster, etc.) can keep people from being harmed by that danger. Since people didn't see negative consequences from the danger, they wrongly conclude that the danger wasn't bad to start with