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TIL in Stockholm, there is a speed camera lottery where good drivers can win money from the fines of speeding drivers

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P1Zrw TIL that The Guess Who (best known for the song "American Woman") was originally known as Chad Allan & The Expressions. Their record label credited their first single to "Guess Who?" in a cheap ploy to make consumers think they were a popular British Invasion band hiding their identity.
VMegQ TIL that dragon fruit grow on cacti
0rrj TIL Since hair can absorb oils, leftover hair from barber shops is used to clean up oil spills.
nQoP TIL that more than 85% of Warsaw’s historic centre was reduced to ruins in the second world war; the city was then reconstructed from the 18th century cityscapes of the Venetian painter Bernardo Bellotto
JEBQ TIL of “risk compensation” - the introduction of seatbelts lead to more deaths of cyclists and pedestrians as drivers felt safer, and therefore drove more recklessly than they would without seatbelts