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TIL pretzels are supposed to look like someone praying
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TIL The longest reverb in the world occurs in the bombproof Inchintown fuel tank built in the late 1930s/early 1940s in Invergordon, Ross-shire, Scotland. It lasts for approximately 112 seconds.
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TIL In Finland, speeding fines are linked to salary. The Finns run a “day fine” system that is calculated on the basis of an offender’s daily disposable income – generally their daily salary divided by two. In 2002, Anssi Vanjoki, a former Nokia director, was ordered to pay a fine of US $103,600
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TIL that in 2023, Jamaican sprinter and multiple world-record holder Usain Bolt lost nearly $13m USD in a 13 year-long fraud scheme at a Kingston investment firm. The money has not been retrieved.
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TIL that an extra on the set of "Transformers 3" was left brain damaged after she was struck with a piece of metal. After the accident, a portion of her skull was removed and she now endures memory loss, seizures, and is blind in one eye. She was awarded an $18.5 million settlement
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TIL A black cop infiltrated the KKK in 1978. He rose through the ranks to become the head of the local chapter. He was able to gather intelligence by pretending to be a white supremacist on the phone and other forms of correspondence. He sent a white officer in his place for any in-person meetings.