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TIL the city of Detroit spends more money issuing parking fines than it collects from them.

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6e7l TIL if Earth was 100 pixels wide, the distance to Mars would be approximately 428,000 pixels away.
Ql9e TIL Benjamin Franklin thought the Bald Eagle was unfit to be a national symbol because it was “a Bird of bad moral character that does not get his Living honestly.”He felt the Turkey would be better because it was a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards
j6RkE TIL that water is harvested from dense fog with nets
lobm1 TIL of the Mountjoy prison escape in Ireland where three IRA men escaped the prison in a hijacked helicopter
KbNG TIL that marijuana is called ‘pot’ due to it being derived from the Spanish word 'potaguaya’, which is a wine or brandy that has had marijuana buds steeped in it