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TIL: Paris has no stop signs

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woNbM TIL: More than 4,000 Swedes have inserted microchips into their hands to store emergency contact details, social media profiles or e-tickets for events and rail journeys
oYgA TIL that before a concert to ease violent tensions in Jamaica, Bob Marley was shot. He went on to perform, injured, stating that, “The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?”
kOJJ5 TIL New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle's 2006 deadly airplane crash hit the apartment of the same woman who was critically injured at the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade after the Cat in The Hat balloon struck a lamppost that wound up hitting her in the head.
eDRk TIL The first products designed specifically to wipe after using the bathroom were aloe-infused sheets of manila hemp but people rejected them in favor of the Sears Roebuck Catalog
oRYmA TIL that, despite it being a common and recurring myth, there is no evidence lobster was ever fed to prisoners