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TIL: the capital of Rwanda has a monthly car-free day

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ADdWo TIL All the gold ever mined would make a cube 71 ft on each side (21.7 m)
YpAY7 TIL of Frederick McKinley Jones - an orphaned black American who, in the 1930s when racial segregation was the norm, invented the first successful automatic refrigeration system for trucks. This lead to the development of supermarkets and better combat-zone medical supply.
Bryvb TIL when Paul Verhoeven first received the script for Robocop, he threw it away in disgust after glancing through it. His wife picked it up from the bin and read through it more thoroughly, and persuaded him that it had more substance than he initially thought.
d8JJ7 TIL The term "Patient Zero" was actually “Patient O” as in the letter O, meaning that the person was from “outside” California. The ambiguous circular symbol on a chart was later read as a zero and the term became widely used.
wkmo TIL Danish comedian Jacob Haugaard who promised more Nutella to army field rations, less sex in school staff rooms, more tail winds on bicycle lines etc. was elected to the Parliament of Denmark in 1994. During his mandate he often had the deciding vote in a hung parliament.