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TIL San Francisco allows people to park in the middle of the road ("the median") on Sundays on certain streets. For many years, law enforcement gave the blind eye to the practice in the name of ‘parking for God’ so people can go to church, it became permissible by law officially in 2018.

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16BRr TIL that the first online purchase was made in 1994 when a man in Philadelphia used his computer to buy a Sting CD from an online store called NetMarket.
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epnB4 TIL about Abul-Abbas. An elephant sent by the caliph Harun al-rashid ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi to the holy Roman emperor Charlemagne as a gift that symbolized the beginning of Abbasid-Carolingian relations. The elephant died in 810 just as charlemagne crossed the rhine.
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Lkx69 TIL that the first ever speeding ticket was issued to Walter Arnold on the 28th of January 1896 in Kent, England. He was blitzing through the town at 8mph (4 times the legal limit), was chased for 5 miles by a police officer on a bicycle, and was fined 1 shilling when he was finally caught.