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TIL that in Russia, some rich people hire “ambulance taxis” to beat Moscow’s traffic jams

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vpMj TIL that april 14th is Black Day in South Korea. A day for single people to be sad together and eat jajangmyeon.
D1yMj TIL that only two months after 9/11, on the 12th of November, an American Airlines flight crashed in Queens, NYC, initially spawning concerns of another terror attack. The crashed killed all 260 people aboard, 5 people on the ground, and is the second deadliest plane accident on US soil.
m1pvO TIL of Haitian mud cookies or bonbon te. The cookies — made of dirt, butter and salt — hold little nutritional value, but manage to keep dirt poor Haitians alive. Still on a per capita basis, Haiti is richer than countries like Pakistan, Nigeria, or the Congo. The taste of dirt lingers for ho urs.
N7xNN TIL Dropbox mobile app can scan documents to PDF and is doing this much faster and easier than Gdrive App
gkrA TIL coach Paul Bear Bryant was once asked to contribute $10 to help pay for a sportswriter’s funeral. According to legend, he said, “Here’s a twenty, bury two.”