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TIL Two feuding mayors in France declared the same road one-way, in different directions.

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oBnaR TIL the 2009 UK Christmas No.1 song (highest selling music single on Christmas Day) was Rage Against the Machines 1992 song “Killing in the Name”.
rRGZo TIL: People will be prohibited from climbing Australia's iconic Ayer's Rock, aka Uluru, from October 2019.
Jv6k TIL that the Vatican says that followers of Pope Francis on twitter will have less time in Purgatory.
kpx7 TIL that during WWII, Ford profited from its factory in Germany. It used ppl from concentration camps to produce military vehicles for the Nazis. In 1945, the US gov paid Ford $1m for damage to the factory caused by Allied bombings. When Holocaust survivors later sued, Ford got the case dismissed.
RmYj TIL according to the Department of Defense, about three quarters of young American adults today would fail to qualify for the military based on the current enlistment criteria because of physical or mental health issues, low educational scores or major criminal convictions.