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

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A1vw TIL that a 14 year old boy broke into Queen Victoria’s Buckingham Palace while disguised as a chimney sweep and then ran off with her underwear.
NyK6 TIL in 2013 a female professor attempted to give a public lecture on men’s rights at the University of Ottawa. 30 protesters harassed the meeting with megaphones outside until they were forced to change rooms, at which point the protesters pulled a fire alarm to force an evacuation of the lecture.
kOB9d TIL The phrase 'pipe dream' is an allusion to the dreams experienced by smokers of opium pipes
DQDe TIL while accepting the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1976, Paul Simon thanked Stevie Wonder for not releasing an album that year. Wonder had won the award in 1974 and 1975, and would win it again 1977
XEnRQ TIL that blind people don't see black or anything in particular. They see literally nothing.