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TIL that goats have rectangular pupils

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8eQg8 TIL that in 2008, the city of Chicago sold the rights to collect revenue from its parking meters to a foreign-owned company, receiving a sum of $1.2 billion against a 75 year lease. Investors have collected $2.1 billion so far, for a yearly RoR of only 4.3%. Chicago has made a handsome profit.
4XNPb The world’s first ever known wheelie to be successfully attempted, c. 1936.
W7yro TIL Hollywood actor Danny Trejo does not do his own stunts, he's said "I don't want to risk 80 people’s jobs just so I can say I have big nuts."
4kkOo TIL Queen Elizabeth II is still the official monarch of Jamaica and has been since 1962
JYNy8 TIL Bhutan is smoking-free, carbon-negative country that passes no law unless it improves citizens' well-being