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

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9wY9M TIL that the Yam postal system of the Mongol Empire covered 190 miles in a day, and was faster than the Pony Express used 600 years later
JYG7m TIL that Russians eat ice cream in the winter to be warm
DQx9e TIL; Before leaving the Titanic, a second officer forgot to hand over a key to the locker - which housed the ships' binoculars. The lookouts that night later said, if they had binoculars, they would have avoided the iceberg.
4Xm5w TIL that sending a cruel leader with a group of incompetent men on a dangerous, nearly impossible mission, in the hope they would not return, was likely the main reason for the spanish expedition to find "El Dorado" in 1560.
QNWO6 TIL about the 1977 Washington DC hostage taking incident, where a slinter group of the Nation of Islam stormed city hall, a Jewish center, and as Islamic center. They took 149 hostages, two of whom were killed, and demanded the cancellation of a movie about the family of Mohammad.