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TIL The British Columbia Parliament Building has a secret dining room guarded by security guards where members of the public must turn in a driver’s license for security pass and go through a coded door

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5p0p TIL wheeltappers used to use long-handled hammers to physically tap the wheels of trains, determining from the ringing sound if they were cracked or not.
N7KYQ TIL the South Koreans gave up their gold to help their country. The gold-collecting campaign was a national sacrificial movement in early 1998 to repay its debt to the International Monetary Fund. The campaign, involving 3.51 million people nationwide, collected 227 tons of gold worth $2.13 billion.
LQNaP TIL the CIA was allegedly behind the 1975 removal of the Australian Prime Minister
vd08 TIL we call the animal a cow because the herdsmen were English, but the meat beef because chefs were often French and beef is similar to the old French word for a cow. The same is true for pig/pork, and sheep/mutton.
loPXG TIL that stop signs have 8 sides because in 1923, it was suggested that the more dangerous an upcoming road was, the more sides a traffic sign should have. Circles (infinite number of sides) designated the riskiest hazards, octagons the second-most dangerous, and rectangles were informational.