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

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gr6Gb TIL Steven Seagal released a dancehall song in 2004 called “Strut” in which he sings in a fake Jamaican accent and his first line is “me want the poonani.”
PYOpG TIL prohibition agent Izzy Einstein often gained access to speakeasies by asking "Would you like to sell a pint of whiskey to a deserving prohibition agent?" Everyone thought he was a comedian until he booked them.
Nk7M TIL that Mongolians were the first to discover yogurt; after riding on horses with milk stored in animal bladders, the milk was curled by the natural enzymes inside of the bladders.
NXn5N TIL about Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (or the "tooth in eye" surgery) where a part of a tooth is implanted into an eye to restore patient's vision
VBJ5p TIL there is 1 building, 1 ship and over 50 organisms named after David Attenborough, including a grasshopper, a Jelly and a Dinosaur