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TIL that when a city builds more roads to reduce traffic the speed gains will usually disappear within a month, if not weeks.

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l7l01 TIL Until 2015 Florida had a prohibition era law on the books that prohibited the sale of beer and other malt liquors to containers that held either 32 ounces or fewer or 128 ounces or more. Any container between those, such as the 64 ounce growlers used by craft brewers, was banned.
0wj1L TIL of Georg Konrad Morgen, an SS judge who prosecuted numerous fellow Nazis for various crimes such as corruption and murder, including those committed in the concentration camp system. After World War II, he testified at the Nuremberg trials against his former colleagues.
69dl7 TIL Disney's "The Three Caballeros" was part of an American propaganda program in the 1940s to foster better relations between the US and Latin America, under FDR's "Good Neighbor Policy".
9wZPX TIL that a researcher called Celia Sanchez-Ramos invented a biometric system that authenticates identity through the cornea instead of through the retina, which can allow for an identity match in under a second
nW7L9 TIL An English composer, Jeremiah Clarke, couldn't decide if he should commit suicide by hanging or drowning himself. He flipped a coin and after the coin landed on its edge in the mud he went home and shot himself instead.