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

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JYPA4 TIL Apples are generally red, green, yellow, but if the right geographical conditions are met, they can apparently grow dark purple, almost black, as well. These rare apples are called Black Diamond and they are currently only grown in the mountains of Tibet.
oRAGE TIL that the crew of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood rarely talked to Fred off set and "mercilessly made fun of him behind his back". Some of the crew would also go into the studio before shows when Fred was rehearsing with the puppets, in order to ask his puppets for advice, which Fred gave them.
O9Y4 TIL there is a remote village in China where many of the inhabitants have blue/green eyes and fair hair. Researchers now believe the villagers may have descended from a legion of Roman soldiers who escaped from a doomed battle in ancient Parthia.
OGKbX TIL emojis and emoticons are not interchangeable words. Emoticans are made with characters - like :), :(, B-), O_O, while emojis are pictographs (literally meaning "picture character" in Japanese) - like the roughly corresponding 🙂, 😔, 😎, 😳
b6N70 TIL Christopher Nolan did not write the line "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" said by Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, his brother Jonathan did. Nolan didn't understand it initially & revealed "It kills me because it's the line that most resonates."