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TIL Singapore has had zero car population growth since 2018 in an effort to curb over-congestion in the city-state

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Ag6n TIL that black liquorice is the only “true” liquorice. Red liquorice contains no actual liquorice, and gets its name solely from resemblance to the real thing.
gMMpW A circumhorizontal arc often called a fire rainbow, is an optical phenomenon in which an ice halo forms by hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high-level cirrus clouds. The halo is so large that the arc appears parallel to the horizon, hence the name. When the sun is very high in the sky, sunlight entering flat, hexagon-shaped ice crystals get split into individual colours just like in a prism.
5VrE8 TIL that poached monkeys are sometimes falsely labeled as captive-bred research animals. This is called monkey laundering.
9wE6 TIL that in California and 3 other US states, “Ladie’s Night” are against the law because they are considered “gender discrimination
Qw59 TIL that despite containing a sizable population that despises homosexuality and Western liberal values, Zanzibar’s tourism industry thrives because of Queen fans that visit the island to see Freddie Mercury’s birthplace.