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TIL that Trick-or-Treating originates from Britain/Ireland and was in fact poor people begging for food in exchange for prayers for the dead

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neaaY TIL that in Denmark, they assess fines for drunk driving as follows: (blood alchohol percentage) x 10 x (monthly salary).
rRyKx TIL: NYC subway's signal technology is nearly a century old, and signal operators don't know precisely where each car is on the tracks at any given time.
d8gm9 TIL about the sport of "Tank Biathlon", a sport promoted by Russia where tank crews compete on a course like biathletes in the Olympics.
l11K TIL Denzel Washington subjected himself to being waterboarded for his role in the film, “Safe House”
KW79 TIL that New York City spent nearly $1 million on typewriters in 2009, mostly for the NYPD, which still used them to fill out property and evidence vouchers, which were printed on carbon-paper forms