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TIL that emergency and city transit vehicles have an infrared emitter to forcibly change traffic lights.

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9w49B TIL about the Zuma, a classified program run by the National Reconnaisance Office. At $3.5 billion, it was at the time the most expensive space launch ever conducted. The satellite apparently failed during deployment and fell back to earth
kOQo7 TIL Ronald Regan used the slogan "Lets make America great again" in his 1980 presidential campaign.
1RlO TIL After Ben Franklin lost his 4 year old son to Smallpox, he became an advocate for Inoculation, and stated in his autobiography: “I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.“
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