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TIL In Cambridge, Canada you can pay your parking tickets by giving toys of equal value to charity

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gMOnW TIL the Navajo Nation reservation is so large (71,000 km2), its area exceeds at least 10 US states in size.
1agjV TIL When 5 experts were given fingerprints that, unbeknownst to them, they had deemed a “match” earlier in their career, and told that these were from a suspect of the Madrid train bombings, 4 of the 5 experts now said that they didn't match, suggesting their judgement is affected by the context.
BAEK TIL Jack Daniel, founder of Jack Daniel’s Whiskey, died due to kicking a safe that wouldn’t open and later contracting blood poisoning.
PYYLw TIL that woodpeckers have exceptionally long tongues that wrap around their brains.
KYA64 TIL early movie projectors utilized primitive arc lights which were very bright but had a tendency to flicker, especially if they were not properly maintained. It is because of this flickering that movies came to be called "flicks".