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TIL that Google calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road.

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Lkwn9 TIL that the highest point on mainland Denmark is a hill named Møllehøj at 170.86 m (561 ft).
AN7J7 TIL of the proposed Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, whose 100m aperture would have allowed it to see objects 1500x fainter than the Hubble Telescope and analyze extrasolar planets for molecules indicating life. It was cancelled due to the €1.5 billion cost being too high
mxaBO TIL the directors of Uncut Gems, did not want to cast Kevin Garnett because they were "sick Knick fan, my instinct when I saw Kevin’s name was, ‘I hate him. I don’t want him anywhere near my movie,’". After it did not work out with Kobe Bryant, Joel Embiid and Amare Stoudemire they stuck with KG.
ZpE9R TIL the word “football” is confusingly used interchangeably across the world. The sports most frequently referred to as simply football are Association Football (Soccer), American Football, Australian Football, Canadian Football, Gaelic Football, Rugby League Football & Rugby Union Football
gr9bb TIL That the movie The Breakfast Club was named after a nickname for morning detention at the high school the movie was filmed at