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TIL you can get wrinkles just from sleeping the same way every night.

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1aXD TIL in 2005 Snapple tried to make the world’s largest popsicle but instead the 17.5 tons of ice melted prematurely and “[flooded] Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid”
YpB6B TIL A pedestrian scramble is a type of traffic signal movement that stops all vehicular traffic, allowing pedestrians to cross an intersection in every direction, including diagonally, at the same time. Research shows it can reduce pedestrian casualties by 38%.
GY04J TIL The Hawaiian Kingdom sells government bonds similar to US government bonds, but they can only be redeemed after "the United States of America's military occupation of the Hawaiian Islands has come to an end"
gQbX TIL that the Phillip J Seymour, the last witness of Abraham Lincolns assassination, lived long enough to be interviewed about it on TV
7RrL TIL That most people in Cuba still drive old American cars from the 1950’s. There are about 60,000 classic American cars in Cuba today and if the embargo were to be lifted, the Cuban people could make a fortune off of these “Yank Tanks”