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TIL that in South Africa traffic lights are called “robots”

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4kpjb Today I learned that 37 years ago this month, Geraldo Rivera blasted open “Al Capone’s Vaults” live on television and discovered… nothing.
VMGYZ TIL Sacagawea, Native American kidnapped, enslaved and sold as a wife at age 12, helped guide the Lewis & Clark Expedition through the Rocky Mountains. Her route was later chosen as the optimal path for the Northern Pacific Railroad to cross the Continental Divide.
AkdB TIL the Nazis also made a film called “Titanic”. It was an anti-British propaganda piece about the famous shipwreck. The RAF bombed the theater it was to have premiered in and later sunk the ship it was filmed on, resulting 3x the deaths as the Titanic.
vP5lj TIL John Preston claimed that his dog, Harass II, had extraordinary forensics skills like tracking a scent months after the suspect had walked on the ground. At a rate of 300$ per day, he was hired by Florida authorities as an expert witness and helped convict as many as 100 people
v6j8 TIL that in 1890 an Oberlin College professor gave a lecture on then-rare aluminum, stating ‘if anyone could make this on a commercial scale, he would be a benefactor to the world and would also make a great fortune.’ In attendance was Charles Hall, who took him up on the challenge – and succeeded.