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TIL There are studies proving that red light cameras are admittedly pure profit, do nothing to cease traffic accidents, protect citizens, or allow safety.

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R7LA1 TIL Our galaxy (the Milky Way) is part of a larger supercluster of 100,000 galaxies named Laniakea that stretches 500 million light years across!
JlO4 TIL that in 1777 a girl named Sybil Ludington went on a night ride to warn American forces of the approaching British. She rode 40 miles - more than twice the distance of Paul Revere - from 9 p.m. to around dawn and was only 16 years old at that time.
VLkm TIL that 1 in 3 people who suffer from migraines experience a perceptual disturbance 10 to 20 minutes prior to the migraine. This is referred to as a migraine aura.
xVgwo TIL that Matt Keck, the man responsible for the famous "I'm a snaaake" video, now runs the Wendy's Twitter account.
e0waE TIL that the all black 369th regiment of the American Expeditionary force in WW1 was called the "Harlem Hellfighters" "due to their toughness and that they never lost a man through capture, lost a trench or a foot of ground to the enemy."