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TIL you don't need to wait 24 hours to file a missing person's report and that this is a common myth.

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1aLyr TIL that after being caught driving at 290km/h (180mph) in Switzerland, a man was fined $1,000,000, the most expensive speeding ticket ever given. He was driving so quickly that several older-model speed cameras were unable to detect him. The driver claimed that his cars speedometer was broken.
8D4a TIL Scientists have compared China’s toxic air pollution to a nuclear winter
kOAD7 TIL that the survival rate on the Titanic was 50% for children and 75% for women but only 20% for men.
16KZW TIL a FBI agent in a gorilla costume was part of a sting operation that arrested two Mexican zoo officials in 1993.
Webo TIL: There are 1.34 billion farmers worldwide, and 74% of them practice traditional handpicking on small farms, but supply less than 5% of our global food supply.