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TIL - Red Light Camera Intersection Purposefully Have The Yellow Light Shortened (3s ‘normal’ -> 2.5s or less) to Increase Violations (Article Example from CA - Other States Have Similar Abuses)

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QJgjM TIL of Marcella LeBeau, a WWII Army Nurse who served in the wake of D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. She received the French Legion of Honor, the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits. The Native American woman is 98 and still active in her community in South Dakota.
yQxLe TIL of a rare variation of the game of checkers named Canadian Checkers - the board is 12x12 with 144 squares (as opposed to the European standard 10x10/100 square board)
0d9pA TIL - John Quincy Adam's would regularly go skinny dipping in the Potomac River.
J9e4 TIL there are 17 different phases of ice which are created under various temperatures and pressures.