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TIL that the treadmill was invented as a form of punishment for prisoners

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0D9p TIL Digger is a military slang term for soldiers from Australia and New Zealand used prominently during WWI. In a wider social context it is linked to the concept of “egalitarian mateship.”
Memb0 TIL Little River, CA, is the lowest-income community in the USA - a 2013-2017 study found that it had a median annual household income of $3,194.
89AV TIL police cars in New South Wales take photographs and log license plates, locations and timestamps for every car that passes them on the road. The data is stored for 5 years.
PYgMV TIL there is a pig out there with a coat like a sheep that almost went extinct by the 1990s called the Mangalica pig.
Aa1o TIL People with many moles have longer telomeres and are more likely to live longer