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TIL Mackinac Island, MI has banned motorized vehicles for over a hundred years. Most travel by horse-drawn carriages or bikes.

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4EZJ TIL in 1982 a Bolivian Drug smuggler’s son was busted in the US. The drug lord sent a letter to Ronald Reagan, proposing that in exchange for his son’s liberty he would pay off Bolivia’s entire foreign debt ($3.8 billion).
lx07 TIL A meth junkie crawled inside a 3,500 year old Florida tree, the fifth oldest tree, and burnt it down.
LQQDZ TIL when a defense lawyer tries to confuse the jury and court, rather than refute the prosecution case, this is known as the 'Chewbacca defense'.
gB6W TIL Fred Waldo “The Great Impostor” pretended to be a surgeon in a Navy ship during the Korean War. When 16 severely wounded soldiers showed up, he speed-read the various surgeries he needed to perform, including major chest surgery. All soldiers survived.
R5RV1 TIL the Old State House in Boston USA, where the Declaration of Independence was signed, was slated for demolition in 1800’s. It was preserved in its original site only because Chicago threatened to transport it brick by brick and make it a National Monument there instead.