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TIL that in Oregon, a citizen may issue a traffic ticket to law enforcement officers

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nedK7 TIL GDP is a very good yardstick for measuring success in war.
8a6MZ TIL Dormant viruses can reactivate during spaceflight. Herpes viruses reactivate in more than half of the crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions.
16VYr TIL that in the year 301, a stonemason was falsely accused of being a woman’s estranged husband. He allegedly fled up a mountain, built a monastery, and lived as a hermit. The isolated mountain community has been self-governing ever since, and is now the modern nation of San Marino.
0d0mA TIL that the Accessible Pedestrian Signal sound that gets pedestrians' attention the most efficiently is a "rapid tick," which sounds like a machine gun.
WkAb4 TIL about Kuru. a terrifying disease caused by eating human brains. Villages in Papua NG ate brains of the dead as an act of love and twisted brain proteins caused trembling and “the laughing death”. People die within 2-4 months.