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TIL that the Montreal bus system has a “between stops” service, allowing women traveling alone late at night to stop between designated bus stops.

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LZYZ TIL that one proposed solution to the US debt ceiling crisis of 2012 was the minting of a 1 trillion dollar coin that would be used to pay off the country’s debt.
ME40 TIL Cartoon Network banned an episode of Cow and Chicken called “Buffalo Gals” which allegedly implied lesbian stereotypes including the Gals being mistaken for men and the line “Oh! the Buffalo Gals, a motorcycle riding gang that randomly breaks into people’s homes and chews on their carpets.”
XYOR TIL In 1953 US and UK overthrow first Iranian democratic government because Iran wanted to nationalize the petroleum reserves.
GvLE TIL that “72% of wingsuit flyers had witnessed death or serious injury, and 76% had experienced a ‘near miss’”
rVZ4 TIL that EA hired people to portray Christians to accuse EA of being the Anti-Christ for the videogame Dante’s Inferno as a marketing scheme.