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TIL 98.5% of crimes in Mexico go unpunished.

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jlEp TIL President Nixon, after many years of refusing to release his tax returns for review, said “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.” After the investigation, he was forced to pay $465,000 in back taxes he owed.
mxYjM TIL That in March of 1955 (9 months before Rosa Park's famous bus incident) 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did exactly the same thing.
BpdL TIL Denmark has the highest consumption of meat per person
6E00Z TIL that over the years bleachers have been set up on the roofs of residential buildings around Wrigley Field; unable to stop them from selling seats to view the game, the Cubs owners have been buying or leasing the roof top bleachers as part of their revenue stream.
BgXVk TIL that the first parking restrictions were in ancient Assyria in c700 BCE. They were made by king Sennacherib about the prohibition to park along the sacred road. The oldest parking signs read "Royal Road - let no man decrease it". The penalty was death followed by impaling outside one's own home