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TIL when a city in Indiana replaced all their signaled intersections with roundabouts, construction costs dropped $125,000, gas savings reached 24k gallons/year per roundabout, injury accidents dropped 80%, and total accidents dropped 40%.

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6vxX TIL That Walt Disney’s daughter Sharon, married a man named Bill Lund. Her official name became Sharon Disney Lund.
v1YK8 TIL that native English speakers are never taught the correct way to order adjectives: they just know it
OGQZL TIL of monster Tony Accardo, who became the most powerful boss of the Chicago Outfit. Accardo was regarded as far more capable than Al Capone had ever been, and despite being involved in crime for over eight decades, he never spent more than a night in jail.
E11JX TIL that Lucifer, which means bringer of light or refers to the planet Venus, was not equated with Satan in the Bible but in Paradise Lost by Milton.
OGQG7 TIL for-profit bail only exists in 2 countries (US and Philippines). Elsewhere, paying money to leave pretrial detention is considered "a debt trap for poor defendants."