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TIL more than 2,500 of the 3,250 crosswalk buttons in New York City function essentially as mechanical placebos. They haven’t worked since the late 1980’s.

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5oaR TIL that Bobby Sands, a member of the Provisional IRA, was elected to British Parliament while in prison. He was never seated and died after 66 days of hunger-striking.
ZmRG TIL that people who score high on ‘openness’ in psychological tests are the most likely to feel chills when they listen to music.
VM6vQ TIL that at age 21, Grimes built a boat to live in while floating down the Mississippi River
GyE4 TIL in 1987, Christian missionaries visited an isolated Brazillian tribe that had not had hardly any contact with the outside world, and in the process introduced viruses that caused 25% of the tribe’s population to die in the following six years.
N7O16 TIL that Johnny Cash wasn't born with a first name, just the initials J. D.