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TIL bail money isn't a payment, it's collateral. If you show up to court, you get the money back (or it goes towards court costs). If you skip your court date, you lose it.

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YpA9d TIL Mountain Goats are not actually in the same genus as other goats (Capra). Mountain Goats are the last surviving species of the genus Oreamnos.
W7v6d TIL that Jean-Jacques Rousseau developed a boustrophedon musical notation. This required the writer to write the second staff from right to left, then the one after from left to right, etc. Thus the musician avoided jumping a staff while reading.
x7N5 TIL that after a woman’s lung collapsed on a flight, two doctors performed surgery with the aircraft’s medical kit, along with a coat hanger, Sellotape, a knife and fork, a bottle of water, and five star brandy for disinfectant. The woman felt better after ten minutes.
vjQL TIL there’s a experimental project in Stockholm, Sweden where you can sign up to recieve a SMS if there is a cardiac arrest nearby (500 m), so you can get there before the ambulance and perform CPR. 9500 people have signed up, and they reach the location faster in 54% of the cases.
OGQL6 TIL that Telex, a telecommunication service that provides text-based message exchange for teleprinter devices at receiving and sending locations, declined as fax machines grew in popularity in the 1980s.