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TIL in Taiwan, you can receive a bounty for submitting roadcam footage of traffic violations

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ldWB TIL that nearly all Japaneses school staff are trained to use a weapon called the Sasumata. It is a two pronged people catcher based off a medieval weapon of war that is used to immobilize intruders.
KYoME TIL in 2012, a group of Mexican scientists intentionally crashed a plane to see which seats have the most chance of survival
WAko TIL: America created the country of Liberia for newly freed black slaves to be sent to.
MMKW TIL - “Gotham City” as New York’s nickname came from Washington Irving’s 1807 description of the city being inhabited by fools (after a town in England).
78pb7 TIL that the term mortician was invented as part of a PR campaign by the funeral industry, which felt it was more customer-friendly than undertaker.