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TIL Traffic in Toronto is so bad, drivers in the GTA lose about 118 hours a year stuck in it.

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AD4po TIL that according to the FCC, as of 2018, there are still 100,000 pay phones left in the United States.
YDAv TIL that Josephine Baker would sometimes bring her pet cheetah, Chiquita, on stage during her performances. The cheetah would often leap in to the orchestra pit and terrorize the musicians, adding a new level of excitement to the show.
0wDaA TIL that there have been reports of "Earthquake lights" dating back to 869, where lights are said to appear in the sky near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity or volcanic eruptions. Although skeptics will point to the lack of confirmed documentation
A14B TIL In the event of a quarantine situation in New York City, The U.S. Government has a contingency plan of placing snipers in strategic locations to prevent people from escaping the Island of Manhatten on inflatable mattresses.
Er6X TIL-King Otto of Bavaria – who ‘ruled’ from 1886 to 1913, and was quite mad – exercised his right to shoot one peasant every day. Luckily for Bavaria’s peasants, his attendants gave him pistols loaded with blanks and dressed up as peasants, playing dead whenever he ‘shot’ them.