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TIL that in Finland, traffic fines are proportionate to the latest available data on an offender’s income. In October 2001, Anssi Vanjoki (at the time a director at Nokia) was ordered to pay a fine of 116,000 euros after being caught driving at 75 km/h in a 50km/h zone.

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gdo9 TIL the Finnish make a traditional beer that has the distinct taste of banana
gLJA TIL Jeffrey Dahmer would taunt prison employees by shaping his food into severed limbs, complete with ketchup to simulate blood
aOk0 TIL that on August 21, 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a wave of concentrated carbon dioxide that killed around 1,800 people and thousands of animals almost instantaneously. One witness said, “On that day there were no flies on the dead. The flies were dead too.”
oJB7 TIL Canada abruptly cancelled the development of its own fighter jet (Avro Arrow) in the 1950s in favour of Nuclear missiles (Bomarcs). All the engineers left for NASA thereafter.
xV7B0 TIL that Elliot Roosevelt, the son of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, wrote a series of mystery novels about his mother solving murders in the White House.