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TIL that when Montana imposed speed limits on former No Limit roads, traffic fatalities doubled.

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Wk4EA TIL about the concept of Shuhari, a Japanese philosophy on learning. The student first follows the rules (Shu), seeks to break the rules (Ha), then becomes the rules (Ri) as they have achieved mastery and the rules are no longer necessary.
Me4Gb TIL Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman" speech never contained that phrase. Truth was raised speaking Dutch in New York. Instead, a white woman retranscribed it 15 years later, embellishing her language to sound more like Southern slaves.
ANDx4 TIL During the trial of Robert James (1936), one of the rattlesnakes used to murder his wife escaped into the courtroom causing hysteria. James ultimately was convicted of first-degree murder and ended up being the last man hanged in California.
mxQEM TIL that our ability to taste sour comes from our ability to detect Hydrogen ions in our saliva. Hydrogen ions are Hydrogen atoms lacking their electron leaving just a proton. Thus protons are sour!
OwA6 TIL The last united states aircraft to be shot down in combat was by another united states aircraft