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TIL there is actually a law in Arizona called the “Stupid Motorist Law”

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m1vgM TIL mayday as a distress call is French M'aider.
Ra4w TIL the Taj Mahal is slowly sinking due to the drying up of the Yamuna River and could collapse all together in the near future
N7ZwE TIL: Black US troops were welcome in Britain in WW2, but the US military's attempt to initiate segregation led to a shootout.
WkWMN TIL Narinder Singh Kapani (1926-2020) is acknowledged as the Father of 'Fiber optics'-a term he coined. His work in 1953 ushered in a new era of High speed Internet, endoscopy, spectroscopy etc An unsung hero, he never patented it. He NEVER won a nobel.
4Dmw TIL on his 1909 safari, Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit killed a total of 17 lions, 11 elephants, and 20 rhinoceros. After the year-long hunt, “the expedition collected 1,100 specimens, including 500 big game.”