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TIL Japan has self-closing jam

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Z8oQB TIL in 2011 nearly 2/3s of all $100+ headphones sold in the US were Beats.
mxeao TIL about the Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße (AVUS) in Germany which opened in 1921 making it the oldest controlled-access highway in Europe, and until 1998 was also used as a racetrack!
kJ9be TIL : High Lithium levels in drinking water will lead to lower than expected suicide rates
lejN TIL that the NYPD had a secret plan to evacuate 10 city blocks due the 1 in 16 chance of a new building collapsing due to the wind. They reinforced the building at night in secret.
1g68 TIL students once hacked the MIT website to say that Disney had bought the school for $6.9 billion as an April Fools Day prank.