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TIL when a city in Indiana replaced all their signaled intersections with roundabouts, construction costs dropped $125,000, gas savings reached 24k gallons/year per roundabout, injury accidents dropped 80%, and total accidents dropped 40%.

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R71gw TIL an almost 80 year old man fought the British in 1775, survived being stabbed multiple times and went on to live well into his 90s.
x68G1 TIL that there exists real footage of one of the most unethical psychological experiments. Its the conformity experiment from Stanley Milgram and was conducted after the atrocities of WW2. It shows a real participant truly believing that he's conforming to killing another subject.
xrXB TIL in 2014, Fox News plagiarized BioShock Infinite’s logo in a segment on immigration titled “Defending the Homeland,” seemingly unaware of the game’s critical exploration of xenophobia.
ybae TIL in 1966 Harper Lee made a donation to the beadle bumble fund after “To kill a mockingbird” was banned by a school board in Hanover, Virginia who believed the book to be immoral. Harper Lee hoped that the donation would be used to educate the school board as she believed them to be illiterate
QNdXE TIL Hula hooping was introduced commercially in 1957 by Wham-O toy company founders. Hula Hoops are not hard to master, but they favor the thin-waisted over the pear-shaped, and women over men