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TIL a policeman William Potts invented the first tri-colour, four-directional traffic signal in 1920 in Motor City (Detroit).

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0L5L TIL a woman changed clothes while on a tour of Iceland and people thought she went missing because they didn’t recognize her. The woman joined a search party looking for herself.
vB6r TIL Evelyn McHale is referred to as the “Most Beautiful Suicide”. On April 30, 1947 she jumped from the observation deck of the Empire State building and fell 86 floors onto the United Nations Assembly Cadillac. The picture was taken by a photography student 4 minutes after the crash.
ADNOx TIL that Prince wrote The Bangles 1986 hit single, ‘Manic Monday’ using a pseudonym.
BggDy TIL that cancer can be directly contagious in dogs, hamsters and Tasmanian Devils
Pr4V TIL a man in the netherlands has been sentenced to jail for sending over 3500 freedom of information-requests to the local city hall, costing the city over 500k € per year