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TIL the city of Los Angeles pays more for parking enforcement/writing tickets than the parking tickets themselves actually generate in revenue for the city.

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78gQZ TIL Elvis Presley's manager made money by selling "I Hate Elvis" badges to those who were not purchasing Elvis merchandise.
LQEG9 TIL In US, a radioactive source is lost, stolen, or missing about once a day and become "orphan sources."
GAe1J TIL during 1904 Olympics men's marathon winner was disqualified as he rode in a car for part of the race. The actual winner was near collapse and hallucinating, an effect of being fed brandy, raw eggs, and strychnine by his trainers. The fourth-place finisher took a nap after eating spoiled apples.
9YdKX TIL Bai Fangli, "a Chinese pedicab driver", "donated 350,000 yuan (US$54,958 in 2015) over a span of 18 years to enable more than 300 poor students to continue with their studies". He "wore second hand discarded clothes", "lived in a shabby house", "ate humble food" and donated most of his income.
R9ej TIL There is a glacier in Montana that is named after the tens of millions of now extinct grasshoppers that can be found trapped within the ice.