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TIL Tallinn is the biggest city and the first national capital in the world to offer free bus services for everybody

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7807Z TIL that from 1958 to 2002 it was tradition for the newly elected French President to pardon traffic offenses for the 6-12 months before the election. President Chirac ended the tradition because of the substantial rise in traffic deaths and injuries it caused.
6EyaW TIL in July 1989 a Soviet pilot catapulted out of his MiG-23 over Poland, the plane flew another 1000 km. and crashed into a Belgium farm killing 1.
AM0w TIL that to be one of the “1%”, a person needs an annual income of $388,905, an increase of 5.2% from a year earlier.
85A8 TIL Authorities uncovered Wachovia Bank who laundered $378.4bn for a Mexican Drug Cartel and was fined just $50m (2%of its profits) and no one went to Jail.
p8dRN TIL That switching from Times New Roman to Garamond in all printed documents could save US state and federal governments $400 million