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TIL Japanese green traffic lights are blue
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TIL that due to airflow, all single rotor helicopters have the same speed limit 250 mph (402 km/h)
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TIL that the hottest part of the day isn't noon, but between 4-6. The earth warms during the day but continues to get warmer until the evening
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TIL that when Bill the Butcher from the film Gangs of New York says the date his father died fighting the British ("the 25th of July Anno Domani 1814"), he's referencing the Battle of Lundy's Lane
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TIL Tina Louise (Ginger on Gilligan's Island) has spent the last 20 years teaching children to read
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TIL of 'Taxus voor hoop', a Dutch initiative to collect pruning leftovers of Yew trees/bushes from gardens to produce cancer treatment drugs