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TIL The original PS1 is a very high-end audiophile CD Player

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49J TIL that 0 of the 50 safest cities are in the US.
Q5YM TIL that the term Gerrymandering comes from a literal Gerrymanderer - Elbridge Gerry, who drew the voting districts of Essex County, MA in such a way that a local paper compared it to a salamander, dubbing it the ‘Gerry-mander"
gMrvD TIL: 17 British men were arrested in Greece for wearing nuns' habits. They were released after noone showed up to testify that they had been upset by the tourists' conduct.
6mnJ TIL that Mississippi permits drivers to consume alcohol while driving. However, the driver must still stay below the 0.08% blood alcohol content limit for DUI.
JYo5V TIL about Bertlmann's socks — a physicist so famed for wearing odd socks every day, that they have been turned into a metaphor about how quantum mechanics does (not) work.