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TIL the Canadian Police Department gives out “positive tickets” when they see people doing something positive.

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05AN TIL that Burlington, Vermont is the first city in the USA to run on 100% clean energy
YlQd TIL that humans’ closest relative, Bonobos, have a peaceful female-run society where sex is used to resolve conflict. They “make love, not war.”
6E7Kl TIL The US shipped about $40 billion in cash to Iraq on planes between 2003 and 2008 and most of it went missing and is still unaccounted for today.
QX8k TIL the human heart can be replaced with two turbines, causing a constant flow of blood rather than a pulse.
EgZpX TIL that chimney sweeping in Germany is protected by a "frankly medieval" guild system. The article also talks about the sweeps' involvement in the country's dark past, the legal requirement to let sweeps in and how freelance competition provoked legal backlash (at time of publication)