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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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xVdD0 TIL that in 1968 the original London bridge was purchased by an American entrepreneur who shipped it to Lake Havasu City, Arizona where it now resides as a tourist destination (and functional Bridge)
e0e4D TIL the worst landslide in US history, the 2014 Oso mudslide which killed 43 people, had been predicted by scientists for years but local officials were unable to convince residents to sell their homes and vacate the region.
NodQ TIL an autistic man was lost in the Utah forest for over 3 weeks, surviving by rolling in and out of a river during the day/night. He was found by a sheriff who had just happened to finish a class on missing autistic people.
4XvGg TIL: Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, who is often portrayed as the epitome of Mexican machismo, never drank alcohol. He actually was so worried about alcoholism spreading in Mexico, that he banned alcohol from his province of Chihuahua.
R78G9 TIL that Sammy Davis Jr didn’t only overcome racism over being black when he became famous in the 50s. He was one of the first openly bisexual pop singers, he was Jewish in perhaps the most anti-Semitic period in modern American history, and he only had one eye!