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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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oRlr7 TIL of Deborah Sampson. She was a woman from Massachusetts who disguised herself as a man and served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After her sex was revealed in 1783 she was honorably discharged at West Point.
Zv7R TIL North Korea holds elections every 5 years in which the ballots list only one candidate and the turnout is 100%.
16K4d TIL in 2007 a dog named Toby saved his owner, Debbie, from choking to death on a piece of apple by jumping up and down on the her chest until it dislodged. After which he started licking her face, keeping her from passing out. Debbie said Toby got involved after he noticed her beating on her chest.
69PPQ TIL of the life of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, a Hungarian jew who was sucessively a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British Member of Parliament for Darlington, German right-wing politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, Buddhist abbot in China, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.
Z8rxv TIL the 1.5-mile-long, 22-foot-high, 4.5-foot-wide granite wall, that currently surrounds the Minnesota State Correctional Facility in St.Cloud, Minnesota, USA is the second largest wall built using inmate labor in the world. The Great Wall of China is the first.