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

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7kjr TIL that Texas bluesman Blind Willie Johnson (who fittingly wrote “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground”) slept in the ruins of his home after it burnt down until his death in 1945.
N7YbJ TIL In 1997, the British handed Hong Kong back to China, the end of a 99-year-long lease
EgDpp TIL that the Wright Brothers' first patent wasn't for their airplane. It was for the system of controls they built to control their airplane.
Ool51 TIL that popcorn was the first food deliberately cooked with microwaves
0V8R TIL that fire burns in a sphere without gravity to stoke it