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TIL that Julius Caesar outlawed private vehicle use during the first 10 hours of daytime to combat traffic.

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4XBl6 TIL that when considering what to name Idaho, a man named George M. Willing suggested Idaho claiming it was an indigenous word meaning "Gem of the Mountains". The name stuck. Afterwards it came out that it wasn't an indigenous word and Willing made it up.
xxVB TIL in 1957 an airplane crashed onto Rikers Island. 57 inmates ran to help the survivors. Most of the prisoners who helped were either set free or received reduced sentences.
p8L6p TIL the child actor who played Oliver Twist also grew up to play Uncle Fester in the Addams family.
gjaA TIL the Rick Ross you know is actually an impostor of the real Rick Ross who, went to jail for 20 years for trafficking drugs (millions and millions), and when he came out, discovered someone was making millions pretending to be him.
P1Maw TIL In 1942, German submarines sunk a British passenger ship. They surfaced to collect survivors, announced their presence to the allies and sailed under a Red Cross flag. The U-Boats were attacked by allied planes, forcing the submarine to throw all the survivors back into the sea and crash dive.