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TIL the world's first traffic light exploded killing a policeman

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N7Yl1 Today I learned that the Apollo 12 backup crew pranked the main crew by sneaking pictures of playboy bunny models into their mission checklist with innuendo captions like "Seen any interesting hills & valleys?"
XEwdX TIL of Ernest Vincent Wright, a self published author whose 1939 book "Gadsby," contains 50,000 words, all without using the letter "E."
p8QX4 TIL As late as 1000 B.C. lions idled on the banks of the Nile—and some even lounged in palaces as domesticated pets for the royals. Very rare lion mummies discovered in Egypt, until today, only one lion mummy had been found by Egyptologists.
l7nk5 TIL that getting a driver's license in Norway can cost around 30,000 NOK, or US$3,675
rR6pW TIL that the most successful female sniper in history, Ludmila Pavlichenko, couldn't pull the trigger on her first kill, until she saw a German shooting a young Russian soldier. She went on to record 309 confirmed kills in WWII.