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

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4Xdd6 TIL a study of prayer for cardiac bypass patients found that prayer had no effect on recovery and that patients who knew they were being prayed for actually had more complications
aplJ TIL that civilian GPS in the 90’s was purposely designed to be inaccurate, due to a feature called selective availability (SA). This changed in 2000 when President Bill Clinton decided to turn SA off and GPSs around the world instantly became 10 times more accurate.
X07GX TIL that not everyone with amyloid in their brain have Alzheimer’s disease, and that only those with abnormal immune activation do.
kONb7 TIL that Parrots aren’t the only birds that can talk (imitate human speech). Mynah birds, Crows and Ravens have been known to do so as well
b6no7 TIL As a teenager, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping went to Europe on a work-study program designed by anarchists who hoped a Western education would create a cohort capable of reviving China