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TIL that the average person spends about six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.

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Nj6M TIL Steve Irwin was offered a state funeral following his death, however his dad rejected the government’s offer citing that Steve would have wanted to have been remembered as “an ordinary bloke”.
e6En TIL that the United States has been on the metric system since 1975 through the Metric Conversion Act, declaring that the metric system is “the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce”
AADd TIL that there is a list (updated annually) designed to help instructors avoid using cultural references that their students aren’t old enough to understand.
9Em TIL Harvard Law library allegedly has a book bound by human skin.
VdrG TIL - A Texas man was arrested for attempting to pay a $600 property bill with $1 notes folded so tightly it reportedly “required tax office personnel approximately six minutes to unfold each bill”.