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TIL jaywalking is not illegal in the UK. Crosswalks are not mandatory to use, as long as you're responsible enough to "stop, look and listen."

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RLnl TIL Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Mount Everest, traveled to the North Pole in 1985 with Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. Hillary thus became the first man to complete the 3 Pole Challenge (North, South, Everest)
4kLrg TIL Harrison Ford smokes and used to sale weed
moGx TIL The “Scotch” in Scotch Tape was originally a racist insult meaning ‘stingy.’ Early efforts at creating the product used too little adhesive, causing one frustrated worker to demand they “take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it.”
Eg97p TIL about Andrew Kehoe, who was a Michigan farmer who became disgruntled after losing reelection as treasurer of the Bath Township school board. He subsequently murdered his wife and then detonated bombs at the school on May 18, 1927. 38 children and 6 adults were killed.
yVJ8a TIL about Li-Fi, a technology introduced in 2011 that uses visible light, ultraviolet light, and infrared light to deliver information in wireless networks similar to radio waves in Wi-Fi.