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TIL In Sweden, for drivers as young as 15, a car can be modified to limit max speed at 19mph, these are called A-Traktor, there is a full culture of these among the teens

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Myg7 TIL Benjamin Franklin tried to abolish slavery in 1790 by petitioning congress and writing many essays on abolitionism.
MmVW TIL a Human Nutrition professor ate mainly Hostess snack cakes for two months to prove That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most – not the nutritional value of the food.
r0B0 TIL that in 1975, North Korean embassy staff in Australia crashed their Mercedes, and when they went to the nearest house for help they were aghast to find that that they had knocked on the door of the South Korean ambassador’s residence.
P61g TIL: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes series, once caught fire while up to bat in a cricket match when a ball struck a box of matches in his pocket.
oYNR TIL The first confirmed Case of AIDS in the US was a 15 year old Missouri boy…in 1969!