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TIL Stockholm, Sweden tested a “Speed Camera Lottery” where speed limit-abiding drivers were automatically entered into a drawing to win a prize pool funded out of fines paid by speeders.

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oQwE TIL: In Mississippi, punishable by jail time of not less than 30 days, it’s illegal to have a second illegitimate child.
DrAe TIL that in 1994 a man was granted a retrial after it came to light the jurors used an oujia board to conclude his guilt.
XOo8 TIL . There is no Beatles music on the Voyager (Interstellar Spacecraft) Golden Record because EMI said no.
NXepE TIL that Alistair Cooke, the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992, had his bones stolen and sold on the black market for use in bone grafts. The cancer from which he died had spread to his bones, making them unsuitable for grafts.
4RB5 TIL that in 2004 the company Alcoa had to officially declare the proposed site for its new aluminum smelting plant in Iceland “elf-free” before it could begin construction.