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TIL: San Francisco ban helmet cams after they capture firefighters running over Asiana crash victim

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E5V0 TIL that the literary character James Bond (whom the movies are based off) has an average intake of sixty custom-made cigarettes a day.
we7J TIL: If you hear “Would Inspector Sands please report to the operations room immediately” in a UK Railway Station, it’s an coded alert to emergency personnel that could mean anything from a fire to a bomb alert. This code is used to avoid causing a panic.
wLnE8 TIL of the Judgment of Paris. Before 1976, American wine had a terrible reputation internationally until an event where Stag's Leap, an American winery, won first place against French wines. In 2006 the same vintages were re-tasted and Stag’s Leap beat all French wines and took 2nd place.
dDEN7 TIL Germany has the highest number of men who sit down to pee in Europe and they are called Sitzpinklers
Z8QAR TIL that French Guiana is legally part of France, and not a separate country, in a similar way to Hawaii being legally part of the USA. Technically all maps of France should probably have a window with French Guiana in the corner, the way Hawaii usually appears on maps of the USA.