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TIL that Boston police confused an LED display, with a picture of a cartoon character on it, for a bomb in 2007. This caused the Boston police to shut down part of a highway, part of the public transportation system, and costing $2M worth of “havoc in the city”

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logJr TIL- The longest ever time between Twins being born was 87 days
M7Lem TIL of the no-panties cafe in 1980s Japan. It's just like every cafe but the waitresses do not wear panties and wear short skirts.
D1V8J TIL that programming and coding uses the same regions of the brain as speech.
PYWXL TIL the song 'Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)' was originally written as an anti-LSD track. Kenny Rogers covered it, leading to it becoming a counter-culture hit and a long-lasting representation of the late 60's psychedelic era.
QN4wL TIL that from 1925 to 1939, a group of corporations called the Phoebus cartel, including General Electric and Philips, coordinated competition among lightbulb manufacturers. To drive repeat sales, they fined companies which produced lightbulbs with an average lifespan exceeding 1,000 hours.