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TIL that the least ticketed car in the US is the Dodge Viper.

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7vb7 TIL In Japan, houses are considered depreciating assets. Half of all homes are destroyed by the time they are 38 and rebuilt. There are 4 times as many architects and twice as many construction workers per capita as the US. There is no home equity LOC and virtually no home improvement industry.
J1Xxm TIL The Twin Roman Emperors Caracalla and Geta in Gladiator II Were Real Brothers. But Not Twins.
1AO7 TIL in 1998, a splinter group of the IRA called in a bomb threat for the courthouse hill in Omagh, N. Ireland. The police evacuated people 400m to the bottom of the hill where it was thought to be safe, however, this spot was the REAL location of the bomb; 29 people died, 220 were injured.
glR4 TIL that in 2007 black leaders of Noxubee County Mississippi were found guilty of orchestrating “relentless racial discrimination” against white voters.
awXry TIL "women and children first" when evacuating a sinking ship has never been maritime law. It is more common for men to survive shipwrecks than women, and children have the lowest chances of survival. The Titanic is an exception; 75% of women survived compared to only 17% of men.