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TIL The term “pipe dream” came from people having fantasies from smoking an opium pipe.

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Oo8O1 TIL The Spanish city of Pontevedra banned all but essential car traffic in 1999, resulting in a 70% decrease in CO2 emissions and zero traffic-related deaths since 2009.
DQevj TIL of Laura Secord who walked 20 miles through American lands to inform the British-Canadian military about an American attack during the War of 1812. The alerted British-Canadian forces were able to repel the attack and capture 500 American soldiers.
QJL6M TIL The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time for the Nintendo 64 is the only game to ever get a 99 rating on Metacritic making it the best rated game of all time
D1Xap TIL Microsoft Solitaire was added to Windows to familiarize new users with the mouse.
e0arL TIL that Tic Tacs are allowed to be listed as "sugar free" by the FDA despite being approximately 90% sugar because each individual Tic Tac contains less than half a gram of sugar.