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TIL New York City is owed over $1 billion in unpaid parking tickets and speeding fines

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l7MgB TIL that the Roman emperor Claudius wrote a now lost book on the art of playing dice.
QNWwa TIL two gifted college students considered themselves so superior they planned “the perfect murder” to prove their intellectual abilities. After murdering a child, despite their purported genius, they left plenty of evidence and were swiftly caught and brought to judgment.
b9V7N TIL about Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank and her family. She hid them in the Secret Annex for 25 months until they were found by the Gestapo. She survived because the officer who found her felt bad, but sent the others to the camps. She later gave Otto Frank Anne's diary and died in 2010.
oRmBW TIL Johnny Cash approved Joaquin Phoenix to play him in the film because he liked his performance in Gladiator (2000). June Carter Cash also approved Reese Witherspoon for her role in the film.
E1LjP TIL that Ancient Roman concrete was stronger than modern.