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TIL Syracuse, NY has the only upside-down traffic light in the world

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ne0o TIL that a man was arrested at Best Buy and detained for hours, for trying to pay with $2 bills, because the store employees and cops mistakenly thought they were counterfeit.
pYB1Q TIL that Laos is the most heavily bombed country in history. An average of 55 bombs dropped per minute over 9 years.
nae7 TIL that Benjamin Franklin was an avid swimmer, and while in London in his 20s swam 3 ½ miles from Chelsea to Blackfriars, impressed onlookers with “feats of activity,” and seriously considered staying in England for good to found a swimming school and earn his fortune.
ADRBo TIL The 1936 Nobel Prize for Physics went to Carl D. Anderson for the discovery of the positron. While a graduate student at Caltech in 1930, Chung-Yao Chao was the first to experimentally identify positrons through electron–positron annihilation, but did not realize what they were
9p1G TIL Salvador Dali created a painting titled “Hitler Masturbating.”