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TIL: A city in England got rid of all it’s traffic lights and said that “Drivers will now be expected to use a combination of common sense and courtesy to negotiate the junction of the town’s High Street"

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b9p8Z TIL a recent survey of the total Mountain Gorilla population estimated there are at least 1,004 individuals, reflecting a substantial increase since 2008. Due to this upward trend in population, their status has been changed from Critically Endangered to Endangered.
gr9p9 TIL about a bird called a green jay, a brilliant green, yellow, and blue jay of the tropics whose range barely stretches to southern Texas.
l1G1 TIL that a tribe in India has an ‘elopement festival’ where young people can choose their own partner, bypassing the traditional arranged marriage
BrjK TIL that Google Earth was originally called Earth Viewer and was created by Keyhole, Inc., a company who were partially funded by the CIA via venture capital firm In-Q-Tel that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the CIA equipped with the latest in information technology.
0wvR TIL that the Tenth Amendment (powers not delegated to Federal gov’t are reserved for states or people) is considered to be superfluous and self-evident, with the Supreme Court even ruling that it “added nothing to the Constitution as originally ratified.”