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TIL People getting paid to spread propaganda through comments is a widespread thing.

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X0vbk TIL the city of Los Angeles pays more for parking enforcement/writing tickets than the parking tickets themselves actually generate in revenue for the city.
eoQg TIL That Ohio issues “Scarlet Letter Plates” to people who are given limited driving privileges because they were convicted of a DUI.
rRWgx TIL of William Kamkwamba, who taught himself to build windmills from library books. He built his first windmill, at age 15, out of junk from the scrap yard and brought power to his Malawian village. Later on he built another windmill to power water pumps to irrigate fields.
Bgd8K TIL Due to a WWII shortage of copper, the US military requested over 14,000 tons of silver for electromagnetic coils to help enrich uranium. The Treasury department loaned them 12,300 tons. Later, over 99.964% of the silver was returned.
4MvJ TIL Haydn wrote a Symphony where each player leaves during the course of the finale leaving only 2 violinists. The song was wrote as a protest to his boss the Prince who refused the players time off to see their families.