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TIL: Adding lanes to highways doesn’t reduce traffic, it increases it…a phenomenon called induced demand

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QNnwk TIL The nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb” is a true story about Mary Elizabeth Sawyer
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VMAZZ TIL a Japanese train driver was so fearful of being punished over a 90 second delay he caused the train to derail killing himself and 107 others
WkElY TIL of Roch Thériault, a Seventh-Day Adventist who lead a cult in the wild of Quebec. He would often perform "surgery" on members, amputate members' limbs, and once attempted to ressurect a woman he killed by have every male member ejaculate in a hole bored in her skull.
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