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TIL in the Switzerland in some parts still there’s no legal age limit for buying cigarettes

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10Gr TIL Norway had a nationwide butter crisis where a package of butter cost 50$
R5ok9 TIL the “20Q” (20 questions) handheld game, a toy released in 2003 and famous for its scary level of accuracy, actually used a basic implementation of an AI neural network. It used training data gathered from users of a web-browser based implementation of the game which launched in 1994.
nelA7 TIL a park project in Los Angeles, named Hollywood Central Park, is proposed to be built atop the 101 freeway as a cap, creating 44 acres of recreational land for the community and essentially turning a mile of the freeway below into a tunnel.
Yp9BB TIL the Pony Express was only active for a year and a half. When business ended, they lost over $200,000, which is equivalent to over $6,000,000 in todays standard.
j6krp TIL that Hey Arnold originally began as a short film called Arnold Escapes from Church, which was made in 1994. It was a part of a series of Nickelodeon animated shorts.