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TIL the city of Jakarta has a "No-car day" every Sunday, inviting pedestrians to use the streets for recreational activity instead

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XEag8 TIL of Manwel Dimech, a Maltese philosopher and social reformer, who fought for oppressed people against the Catholic Church and British, only to end up dying in exile. Fascinating life story though.
Qgye TIL Jason from the Friday the 13th is unmasked in nearly every film and has had a different looking face each time
1kO4 TIL Jiminy Cricket was initially drawn as a realistic cricket, but Disney wanted something more likable, so the supervising animator came up with what he described as a “little man with an egg head and no ears”, saying “the only thing that makes him a cricket is because we call him one.”
VK1Q TIL that a woman struck and killed a teenage boy while driving her SUV, then sued the dead boy and his family because the event caused her “emotional distress”.
NxdN TIL that Saturn’s moon Titan has an unexplained anomaly in its atmospheric composition that is consistent with earlier predictions about life there