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TIL that police officers in one state in India are given a slight pay upgrade for having a moustache

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wo6po TIL in 1714, a Native American guide in eastern North America showed a group of settlers a deep path worn in the streambank by herds of eastern elk crossing the river. By 1880, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the eastern elk subspecies extinct.
aQDJ TIL Stockholm, Sweden tested a “Speed Camera Lottery” where speed limit-abiding drivers were automatically entered into a drawing to win a prize pool funded out of fines paid by speeders.
w0B6 TIL that the CIA once turned down a ‘Freedom of Information Act’ request that inquired about Osama Bin Laden’s “fairly extensive” porn collection collected in the raid of his compound in 2011.
dDVlB TIL a majority of the people Christopher Walken interacted with as a child were non-native English speakers, including his father. Walken attributes his unique halting speaking style to watching people hesitate to think of the right English word.
GlY4 TIL: The longest war in America History lasted 46 years an was against the Apache Nation