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TIL that on the longest ice road in Europe, in Estonia, it is illegal to wear a seatbelt

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loYn5 TIL in 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which prohibited newspapers from publishing "false, scandalous, or malicious writing" against the government, including any public opposition to any law or presidential act. This act was in effect until 1801.
9wMwQ TIL county officials in China's Hubei province proposed a law in 2009 requiring civil servants to smoke $500k USD of locally made cigarettes a year to boost tax revenue
XE1gr TIL that the song "House of the Rising Sun," most famously known from the recording by The Animals in 1964, is actually a much older traditional folk song with no known original artist, composer or place of origin.
VMQkp TIL during Richard Ramirez’s murder spree, after it was revealed that shoe prints from Los Angeles crime scenes matched one in San Francisco, San Francisco’s then mayor revealed the information on TV. This enraged police as they knew Ramirez would see it and thus destroy evidence. Which he did.
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