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TIL Japan not only requires identifying badges on cars for new drivers, but also for the elderly, handicapped, and hearing impaired

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VMlN4 TIL that Paraguay briefly made married polygamy legal in the 19th century, after a major war against neighboring countries had claimed the lives of many men. At that time, males were only 13% of the total population of Paraguay.
e0ObL TIL Palma de Mallorca Airport in Spain only reached 1 million passengers for the first time in 1962. Today, the airport serves 29 million passengers per year & during the busiest days in the Summer handles as many movements as London-Heathrow, the busiest airport in Europe.
m1wxx TIL some electric vehicles add idle creep to make their cars feel more comfortable to consumers.
GYGJQ TIL that there is a temperature scale called the Rankine scale. It uses the absolute zero as it's 0°, but uses the number scale from Fahrenheit. (Compared to Kelvin, which uses the number scale from Celsius)
l756G TIL that the original title of the novel "Robinson Crusoe" was not "Robinson Crusoe", and I can't type it here because it's too long.