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TIL McDonalds did away with their spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons

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YgQv TIL studies show that when traditional intersections were replaced with modern roundabouts in the USA, there was a 37% reduction in overall collisions, 75% reduction in injury collisions, 90% reduction in fatality collisions, and 40% reduction in pedestrian collisions.

kOdm1 TIL Istanbul has a tremendous amount of stray and feral cats. Entire neighborhoods pitch in food and medical care for the native cats and there is a local belief, "If you kill a cat, you need to build a mosque to be forgiven by God."

mxpJM TIL The oldest known galaxy in the universe is GN-z11, a galaxy approximately 32 billion light years away from us. Scientists observe it as it existed 13.4 billion years ago, only 400 million years after the Big Bang.

rRP9M TIL of Alec Cabacungan, the spokesperson for Shriners Childrens Hospital for the last 6 years, has Brittle Bone Disease. He has broken over 60 bones in his lifetime. He is an 18yo college freshmen, plays wheelchair basketball, interviews athletes and has appeared on sports shows such as NBA on TNT.

mNNo TIL Samuel L Jackson was part of the Black Power movement but before Jackson could become involved with any significant armed confrontation, his mother sent him to Los Angeles after the FBI told her that he would die within a year if he remained with the Black Power movement.