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TIL In 2007, in response to an increase in pedestrians wearing headphones being hit by cars, NY proposed making it illegal to cross the street with headphones. Australian State Traffic Commander, Chief Superintendent responded, “You can’t legislate stupidity” and Australia ran a warning-ad instead.

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gr9EL TIL because radio stations at the time preferred to not play songs lasting more than three minutes, Paul Simon listed the running time of the 1967 Simon & Garfunkel song "Fakin' It" as 2:74 on the label.
8ae4 TIL in 2003, the “Infinite Monkey Theorem” was tested. Six Macaques were left with a working computer keyboard for a month. They produced six pages of mostly the letter “S” and a bashed-in keyboard covered in Macaque urine and feces.
LQAvr TIL Alan Tudyk has voiced characters in every Walt Disney Animation Studios film since 2012.
kO1dg TIL that in 1939, George Dantzig, arrived late for class and assumed that the two problems written on the board was a homework assignment. When turning it in, he apologized for taking long to finish; it turned out that he had solved two estwhile unsolved / unproved problems in statistics.
GO5E TIL Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child is 2-6 years old