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TIL in addition to being energy efficient, modern streetlights are frequently wirelessly connected, letting municipalities/utility companies know when their lightbulbs might need to get replaced.

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e0AyJ TIL In the Liberian General Election (1927), there were 15,000 voters but the winner received 243,000 votes. It made it the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent election reported in history.
7r5BO TIL researchers found that double decker bus drivers were twice as likely to have heart attacks as their bus conductor colleagues. The drivers sat for 90% of their shifts, the conductors climbed about 600 stairs a day
A4wo TIL to eliminate all the elusive invasive goats in the Galapagos, researchers attached a GPS to a ‘Judas goat’ who would, because of its gregarious nature, seek out other goats. It was then tracked down, the group killed, but with the 'traitor’ left alive to repeat the cycle.
W7E6Y TIL: The agricultural flail, a tool used to thresh grain, was adapted into both the nunchuck, a Japanese martial arts weapon, and the military flail, a weapon used in medieval warfare
YpomG TIL, in 2015, brothers John and Geof Bitmead modified a Daewoo Matiz to resemble the red and yellow 'Little Tikes' car. The car cost £30,000 to build, and was put on auction for £21,500; it failed to sell.